DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum

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Hi, author of the article here! Great to see this posted today on the Speccy's 40th birthday :) Happy to answer any questions or reminisce about the Good Old Days!

Question: YS or SU?

YS forever. SU had some good covertapes, but YS was a way of life.

Oh, agreed. But I had the best of both worlds: I liked YS while my brother (a few years younger) preferred SU, so we could nag our parents into buying one each. I suspect YS was a little too highbrow for a nine year old.

But how the mighty have fallen. I'm now reduced to buying the Crash annual at Christmas...

For the uninitiated. YS and SU were two highly distributed magazines from the 80s.

YS: Your Sinclair https://archive.org/details/your-sinclair-magazine.

SU: Sinclair User https://archive.org/details/sinclair-user-magazine

Hah! Knew this would make the front page. Not read it yet, saving for tomorrow but I just love the whole concept.

My first computer was a 48k speccy.

Mine too. Eventually got a +3,a Plus and even a ZX81 for the sake of completion before I moved onto the Amiga.

Other systems of the day like the C64 could run rings around the Speccy, but I always loved it's quintessentially British "crap" aesthetic and charm, colour-clash and all :)

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