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A few of the words
- SPECTRUM
- The ZX Spectrum launched in April 1982 at just £125, bringing colour graphics and a rubber keyboard into hundreds of thousands of British homes.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- CASSETTE
- Games were stored on ordinary audio cassettes — the same kind you'd use for a mixtape — and loading one could take a nerve-shredding five minutes or more.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- SINCLAIR
- Sir Clive Sinclair's Cambridge-based company sold over five million Spectrum units, making it the best-selling British home computer of its era.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- ACORN
- Acorn's BBC Micro, introduced in 1981, was selected by the BBC Computer Literacy Project and found its way into almost every school in Britain.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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Home computers word search — free and large-print. Relive the hiss of the tape deck, rubber keys, and that glorious loading screen.
About Nostalgia & Eras
In the early 1980s, home computing arrived not in offices but in living rooms — balanced on coffee tables, plugged into the family television. A cassette would squeal and warble for two tense minutes before a game burst onto screen in blocky, brilliant colour. Machines like the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 didn't just entertain; they quietly handed a generation its first glimpse of what a computer could do.
How to play
- 1Find a word from the list.Press the first letter and drag to the last — across, down or diagonally, forwards or back. Or tap the first letter, then the last.
- 2It stays marked.Found words get a soft teal line through them, on the grid and in the list.
- 3Make it comfortable.Use the A / A+ / A++ size control any time, or pinch the grid for a closer look.
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