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Reg Hardware Retro Week Complete Coverage

Step back to the 8-bit world

By Register Hardware

Posted in Hardware, 24th April 2012 08:00 GMT

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Retro Week

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Thirty years ago today, a pre-knighthood Sir Clive Sinclair launched his first colour computer, the ZX Spectrum, and the early 1980s home computing revolution got a good a shove forward like no other before it.

Many a Reg reader can trace his or her engagement with information technology back to that point, but whether your first computing experience lay with a Sinclair product; Acorn's Atom, BBC Micro or Electron; an Apple II or Mac; the first IBM PC; Commodore's Pet, Vic-20, 64 or Amiga; or one of the many, many other - usually incompatible - 8-bit micros of the time, we call on you to celebrate with us this 'best of times'.

Ahead, we have a full five days coverage of computing in the 80s: the machines, the games, the listings - all by people who were there. We'll be adding content here - check back regularly to avoid missing out.

Retro Week Coverage

• Basic instinct: how we used to code [1]
• Twelve... classic 1980s 8-bit micros [2]
• Ten... eight-bit classic games [3]
• Look back in Ascii: Computing in the 1980s [4]
• Happy 30th Birthday, Sinclair ZX Spectrum [5]

More 30th Birthday Celebrations

• The Commodore 64 [6]
• The Acorn BBC Micro [7]
• The IBM PC [8]
• Microsoft MS-DOS [9]
• The Osborne 1 [10]
• The Sinclair ZX81 [11]

Other Anniversaries

• The Apple iPod is 10 [12]
• QuickTime is 20 [13]

People

• Commodore founder Jack Tramiel dies at 83 [14]
• Dennis Ritchie: The C man who booted Unix [15]
• Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is dead at 56 [16]
• Adam Osborne 1939-2003 [17]