Sinclair Research was best known in the United States for the tiny ZX80, and the ZX81, under its Timex branding. However, they also made the ZX Spectrum which had many features that were — at the time ...

Everything old can be made new again. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Despite its reign ending decades past, the ZX Spectrum is ...

Looking back from a world of smartphones and Xboxes, it’s astonishing that such a commercially successful product could have happened with this unglamorous and flawed piece of equipment. Yes, I’m a ...

A UK company has started production of a ‘new’ Sinclair ZX Spectrum hand-held games console, more than 30 years after the original ZX Spectrum was inspiring the young of Britain. The Sinclair ZX ...

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For all its faults, the UK clearly still loves the rickety old ZX Spectrum. An official remake of the old school computer, complete with hundreds of built-in games, recently raised more than £120,000 ...

Unless you were lucky enough to be able to afford a floppy disk drive, you probably used cassette tapes to store programs and data if you used pretty much any home computer in the 1980s. ZX Spectrum ...

Sir Clive Sinclair appears pretty laid back about concerns that he may have hastened the demise of the human race. His ZX Spectrum computers were in large part responsible for creating a generation of ...

A reader looks back at some of his favourite Christmas Day memories, from getting a ZX Spectrum as a kid to a brand new PlayStation 5. Having played games for most of my 40 years on this mortal coil I ...