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April 24, 2007
More nostalgic memories
It seems that nostalgia is filling my thoughts at the moment ....
Yesterday it was the Sex Pistols and today it's the ZX Spectrum computer. For those of you old enough to remember (and yes I can) it was launched by Sir Clive Sinclair and at the time it was heralded as a revolution and ignited the the home computer age in this country.
My reason for my reminisce over the Spectrum is that it is 25 years since it first appeared on the British market and although people would laugh at it now I do have some happy memories of this iconic piece of technology.
I remember buying my son and daughter a second hand one and watching the enjoyment they got, and me for that matter, from those early computer games like Pit Stop and Impossible Mission.
Sadly time overtook Sir Clive's range of computers but they will long live in the memory of many of us even to the extent that a number of websites are dedicated to the machine including http://www.worldofspectrum.org.
Back to reality and this week's Gazette is shaping up nicely and it looks like we have a really strong lead for the Uxbridge and Hayes editions following some excellent work by reporter John Hughill.
We also have a feature on readers' hitting back at the survey (see previous blog) which placed Hillingdon as one of the worst places in the country to bring up a family.
They certainly agree with my sentiments that the survey is nothing more than a joke but one that I believe needs to be highlighted in this week's paper. I feel that as the local paid-for paper for borough we should defend it at every opportunity when it's unfairly criticised nationally.
Interestingly a fellow editor, and close colleague, not a million miles down the road thought the survey was so flawed that it did not warrant any column inches in his paper and was only fit for the rubbish bin!.
Posted by aseal at April 24, 2007 8:46 AM
Comments...
Adrian, you remember Pit Stop as well?
Actually I was surfing the web last weekend and came across some sites where you can download and play all those old games - not just from the Spectrum but from the ZX81 too. How things have changed in such a short time?
Andrew.
Comment posted by: Andrew at April 24, 2007 11:40 AM
Adrian,
On the subject of Spectrums, I had a 16k Spectrum 2+ - most emails you send nowadays are bigger than that, and that was the entire machine!
How times have changed.
p.s. I think the Dizzy series were the best were the best games
Comment posted by: Patrick at April 24, 2007 6:11 PM