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retro hour podcast episode number 112 your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me

down wood and me rabbi abbott right at the of this week's show, I do have to apologise. I've been somewhere rather unpleasant before I came in here today. He's just had a filling, so he might be going, blah, blah, but later on as the numbness wars off. I drove here straight from the dentist. So if I sound a bit slurrying, I'm not drunk.

I promise. Yeah. Have you ever had Novakane before? Yeah. And it's just really like, you feel like you've been punched in the mouth once it was off. Oh, well, I look forward to that in about half an hour. So Ravi's got the displeasure of watching dribble down my chin for the next hour or so. but hopefully that will wear off

soon. I don't sound too slurry on this week's show.

That was a wise choice, wasn't it?

Going there before I came here. But we have got a really good show today. I'm not going to do the majority of the talking because today we're going to be talking about one of the most iconic computers of all time from Britain that is getting a reinvention for the 21st century. Today's show, we're going

to talk about the ZDX spectrum next. You know, the spectrum, it reeks of the 80s for me. It's like

Clive Sinclair, you know, that kind of small enterprise projects and all of that stuff. It was very

about Britain and their kind of innovation. And the spectrum shouldn't

have been popular, should it? It was, it was a, I'd probably get killed for saying. Don't tell our guess that

this week, right? But you know, it had all things against it. It was a small machine. It had

low memory. But people used it and they created absolutely amazing things on it, you know,

and it continued for so long.

And this is a continuation of that now. Well, the original spectrum was affordable. That's why people bought it, I think. Yeah. Because, you know, that was one of the first... It's during a recession, wasn't it? Yeah, the early 80s. You know, minor strike era and all that, wasn't it? So that was kind of one of the first machines that people could afford to own at home.

And it spawned an absolute revolution.

I mean, we often get messages of people saying they listen to our show to get this kind of unique British perspective because I know there was kind of clones of the spectrum around the world. Yeah, there was a strange Russian ones, wasn't there? And the time X ones in America. Yeah. But it didn't have the same kind of cultural influence

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