[gregopet]

A friend of mine had faulty wiring in his house, the electricity would go out for a few brief moments whenever someone would ring his house bell. He would stand in front of his house when ZX Spectrum games were being broadcast so nobody would ring and interrupt his recorder :)

[harryf]

For me it was my mum turning on the vacuum cleaner would cause a spike that could reboot the Spectrum 48K. The 128 model had a better power supply as I remember. Also the ZX81 I had before that (think I was 8 at the time) was extremely sensitive to the state of the current in the house...

[jprd]

This is so great!

Reminds me of policing the phone line so someone didn't blow up my BBS Kermit downloads.