Hi I also was part of this generation. My first was a Sinclair ZX81 with 1 kb ram :)

And a double deck tape player, also made into your collection?

That was eventually the next step, for the school trading ground activities.

Not that the Portuguese shops had any original stuff anyway, I bought several games with clear copied covers in black and white, without manuals.

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xcf_seetan 3 hours ago | parent [-]

For the ZX81 there was almost none programs! I could get a chess and a flight simulator (1kb Ram), the rest i used to get from printed magazines. But for later with the Spectrum the double deck tape player was a must! We would go to the local shop and buy one game, when home, duplicate it then return it saying that it didn't load well. want another and pick a different one and so on...

	▲	pjmlp 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Ah yes, my circle also did that approach with local shops.