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Re:Sir Clive Sinclair has died by RantyDave on Thursday September 16, 2021 @05:08PM (#28557634)
I'm another who had exactly the same experience. That one sentence did the entire country a massive favour (and is, sadly, no longer true)

The quality of the documentation with these early computers was also truly exceptional. I learned basic in a weekend.

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Re:Sir Clive Sinclair has died by midnightclubbed on Thursday September 16, 2021 @05:27PM (#28557883)
To elaborate your point every ZX Spectrum came with a detailed manual from which you could learn Basic.

And in the back it had a ascii table with all the Z80 instruction codes - so once you had basic down you could try assembly!

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Re:Sir Clive Sinclair has died by timthorn on Thursday September 16, 2021 @05:34PM (#28557973)
The keyboard itself was almost the Spectrum's own manual, listing all the BASIC keywords - because to enter one of the keywords, you just typed the key with that label. That made programming possible for a preschooler.
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Re:Sir Clive Sinclair has died by rodgerd on Thursday September 16, 2021 @11:53PM (#28561017)
More than just that; the block diagram and a lucid explantion of floating point mathematics that has lasted me for 40 years.
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