Did any of you British people here own a Spectrum

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Does anyone else remember all the fun you used to have altering the tape head alignment to load those games your mate at school gave you a copy of?

R: Tape loading error.

At that time there were no antipiracy laws here, he he and there was a show on radio where they'd broadcast games on FM.

I have a nice collection of tapes and I was considering copying them to CDs as audio tracks for presservation (there's a lot of Spectrum software on the 'net - only finished Renegade later on a PC using emulator with ability to save the state of RAM).

I wrote a BASIC proggy that draws an image for every letter of alphabet (eg A Auto, B Ballon, etc...) and asks you to press correct letter, had couple of 100 lines too.