The recent article on the lack of a game crash outside of the US got me thinking about how I perceive the ZX Spectrum. How were these used on a day-to-day basis? I've always thought of it as a game console because I only think and hear of it in terms of games. I've never used one myself and I can't imagine using a membrane keypad for word processing or other non-gaming applications.
So people who had a ZX Spectrum in the home: how did it get used?
For reference, I'm an American born in '83, had Atari 2600, 7800, Genesis, and always had an IBM Compatible PC from 1990 onward. It was purchased for business purposes (Dad was treasurer for a local non-profit) but we used it in evenings for games, school work, BBSs, and usenet.
Yeah, I only used mine for playing games and also a little coding in BASIC - albeit on a later model whose keyboard was more suited for such things. I went to try a bit of coding on the recent The Spectrum (that recreates the original model) and gave up after about 10 minutes.
I'm sure some people did use it for other things and simply made do with the keyboard as it was what they had, but certainly amongst people I knew it was just used for gaming.
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