My first computer was a ZX Spectrum, with all of 48 kilobytes of RAM, and as long as it lasted I obsessively typed in BASIC programs to see what I could get it to do. It was powerful (at least to a ...

Even for 1982, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum had poor sound: a piezoelectric speaker that could beep. But you can do a lot with a ...

Began his career as a mail-order radio salesman; failed to launch 1980s electric cars. How many people in the UK tech and computing industry owe their entire careers to being kickstarted by the ...