I see there have been at least a couple of recent recreations of the ZX Spectrum. One is a games-only machine (the ZX Spectrum Vega) with a cut-down keyboard. The other seems to be a complete reimplementation.
Why post here? I wondered if, in the future, people would be as nostialgic for the Raspberry Pi - in, say, 30 years time. I don't think they would. Why? Well, the Pi is a more complete system. It is more of a general purpose machine, and more useful as a consequence. It doesn't have all the same types of quirks and limtations of the ZX Spectrum. Basically, those are what gave the Spectrum its personality.
Not wishing this to be pejorative, just an acceptance of the world as it is, but ISTM that the Raspberry Pi has fewer limitations and therefore has less of a personality. As with all modern machines they are more chameleon-like and less quirky, less limited to certain roles, more bland.
As users of the Pi what do you guys think? Am I right about why people are recreating versions of a 30-year-old computer? Is the Pi differently fated, and why?
Just for interest.
James