[gxd]

Despite quickly becoming obsolete, the early ZX computers (ZX80 and ZX81) were a marvel of cost-benefit at the time. Most people had no access to computing of any kind... The difference between no computing and a machine that can perform thousands of operations per second is massive.

[pjmlp]

When I finally got one, it was already the Timex 2068 (48K clone with some extras), but it got certainly plenty of use, not only games.