Bloody hell, how time flies eh.
My first job when I left school was in a computer shop selling the speccy, mind you though, I always tried to talk people into getting the 64 instead.
I started off with the vic20 then went up to the 64.
You guys remember Jeff Minter of Llamasoft, he hated the spectrum and used to have them in most of his games to shoot up, one in particular, Revenge of the Mutant Camels(I think), when you shot the spectrum as it whizzed around the sky all the keys blew off, just like real life...
What about what came after the Spectrum, remember that one???
The Quantum, was from what I remember quite an advanced machine for the time when you consider the competition was IBM and Apple