Great Post
I remember the z80 very well. As Nutty pointed out you would buy a magazine, then spend to hours typing code in. Then when you run it it errors because there is a , in the wrong place, or the volume was wrong

To think that there are wrist watches now with FAR MORE memory and CPU power
10 PRINT LOL;
20 GOTO 10
The good old days
I see the ads on this page show some Spectrum stuff, brilliant!