DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum

[nickt]

http://www.markround.com/blog/2021/12/21/devops-for-the-sinclair-spectrum-part-1/

[mark_round]

Hi, author of the article here! Great to see this posted today on the Speccy's 40th birthday :) Happy to answer any questions or reminisce about the Good Old Days!

[olddustytrail → mark_round]

Question: YS or SU?

[mark_round → olddustytrail]

YS forever. SU had some good covertapes, but YS was a way of life.

[olddustytrail → mark_round]

Oh, agreed. But I had the best of both worlds: I liked YS while my brother (a few years younger) preferred SU, so we could nag our parents into buying one each. I suspect YS was a little too highbrow for a nine year old.

But how the mighty have fallen. I'm now reduced to buying the Crash annual at Christmas...

[rsecora → olddustytrail]

For the uninitiated. YS and SU were two highly distributed magazines from the 80s.

YS: Your Sinclair https://archive.org/details/your-sinclair-magazine.

SU: Sinclair User https://archive.org/details/sinclair-user-magazine

[olddustytrail]

Hah! Knew this would make the front page. Not read it yet, saving for tomorrow but I just love the whole concept.

My first computer was a 48k speccy.

[mark_round → olddustytrail]

Mine too. Eventually got a +3,a Plus and even a ZX81 for the sake of completion before I moved onto the Amiga.

Other systems of the day like the C64 could run rings around the Speccy, but I always loved it's quintessentially British "crap" aesthetic and charm, colour-clash and all :)