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Depending on your country you might be able to buy a ZX spectrum for a reasonable price. Their through-hole circuit boards are very repairable and there's a some videos on YouTube explaining how to properly troubleshoot them.

I've personally had a lot of fun repairing one I bought on catawiki.

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> Depending on your country you might be able to buy a ZX spectrum for a reasonable price.

Bought one at a garage sale for 5 EUR. I'm pretty sure it does not work. Haven't tried it: I still have a good old CRT TV so I could.

But when people talk about coding for these 8-bit machines, they usually mean they'll target an emulator.

I understand there is an common fault where something, perhaps a capacitor, has failed over the years and if you plug it in something major gets fried.

If you do get one, investigate that before attempting to power it up.

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