ZX Spectrum beeps again as nostalgia for 80s tech takes hold

Clive Sinclair's computer returns as a retro games console after crowdfunding campaign

Given the public's insatiable appetite for reviving anything from the 1980s, from Dallas to Spandau Ballet, it was only a matter of time before wily entrepreneurs brought back the computer that did as much to define the decade as shoulder pads and the Filofax.

For a large number of people in their 40s, mention of the ZX Spectrum will bring back fond memories of hours spent using a pad with rubber keys to type elementary code while waiting to upload a game via a tape recorder that emitted a succession of high pitched bleeps and whistles.

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