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So many birthdays every year. And every year we celebrate again. But this birthday is special, because it's the 40th. And of course it is the birthday - better release date - of the ZX Spectrum. 🎉

Actually, you're not old when you're 40. As they say, the first 40 years of childhood are the best after all. 😁

And so the litte machine - affectionately named Speccy - has a huge fan base to this day, still producing new hardware and software for this masterpiece from Sir Clive Sinclair.

Since this week's focus is on the little 8-bit'er, we join the queue, and provide a few of the gems of this week. First up is Peter Misenko with his Pocket ZX Spectrum. The info on Hackaday is a bit thin, currently you can only become Peter's Patreon, to get access to the PCBs. It actually is a Raspberry Pi Pico based home-brew, in a very handy format.

If that’s your thing and if you would like to build your own Pico, you find more info in our Issue #17. There we had already reviewed the first version of the device. But in this issue it is of course a perfect fit.