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		Zardoz84 on Feb 2, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Windows 10 for Raspberry Pi 2 I would prefer giving to a children an ZX Spectrum and explain how use it to make programs on BASIC, that putting in front of a Windows. At least, they would understand what is doing the computer, instead of seeing the computer doing "magic"

72deluxe on Feb 2, 2015 [–]

I misread you then and read ZX81 instead of Spectrum and my mind went back to typing in pages of code and being unable to save due to only have the 8k version.

That nearly put me off writing code!

Thanks to the BBC B and floppy disks!

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