For the time, it WAS the bollox!!! A fair few of today's leading game houses started out on the good old Speccy - e.g. CodeMasters of Colin McRae Rally fame.

Good old (Sir) Clive Sinclair A true genius, even if he perhaps took some of his products to market a little early

Spectrum would have been THE choice for computers in schools too, but it got pipped by the inferior BBC B purely due to the keyboard (nick named 'dead flesh' lol). The only good thing about the BBC was Elite

Online emulator: http://twinbee.org/hob/