There are a lot of famous people who got their start in programming, game-development, and similar things from the ZX Spectrum in the UK.
A really iconic design and beautiful machine despite the limitations - or perhaps because of them.
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A Spectrum clone was a very popular first computer in Brazil. Microdigital made a whole series of very successful Sinclair clones. Another company, Prologica, cloned the ZX80 and ZX81, the latter in at least three physical formats.
I had a great time at VCF East 2024 looking at South American clones and talking to these guys: https://arjorge1987.substack.com/p/mi-experiencia-en-fotos-d...
Yes! In Uruguay, my first computer was a Microdigital TK-90, and the second one a TK-95, and those are the machines I learned to program on.
I love how they just ripped Commodore's Plus/4 to make their 95. They also did give their Micro Professor II clone an Atari 1200 look.