We had a ZX81 with a membrane keyboard and my dad's Radio Shack cassette player for loading the OS. Then we upgraded to an Apple IIe.
ZX81
That may be the one I had as well. Been a couple years since then.... Was black and white, membrane keyboard, and I had to assemble it- some soldering even. I actually bought it from a friend who had bought it and failed at putting it together. I saved up paper rute money and got the VIC 20 when it came out. Initially I was using a panasonic cassette player via the headphone jack for storage, and eventually got the actual Commodore cassette deck which had a peripheral hook up.
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