Steve’s talk, “The Speccy Geek” - sub-titled “The making of a home computer and a software engineer” - was a fascinating sequel to Andy’s excellent talk on all things Sinclair last month.

Steve gave attendees a fascinating account of the hardware evolution of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, driven by the constraints of the electronics of the day and the need to control cost.

As a practicing software engineer, Steve was able to highlight the design quirks of the Spectrum and how they affected programming it. Quite a few club members had at one time owned this computer and enjoyed a walk down memory lane!