This brings back memories. I kind of wish I still had some of my old computers. My family had a Spectrum like that (I can't remember if it was a 16k or 48k) when I was little, and then a Spectrum+ (the one with the plastic keyboard, then a Spectrum+2 with the built-in tape loader and a better keyboard. It definitely played a significant part in my childhood and introduced me to programming, although I never achieved much in the way of programs, aside from some that just did basic input and output.