The PC turned 30 last summer, and this week, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum turned 30 as well.
My personal perspective is the other way ’round: ignoring the couple of weeks I “enjoyed” the ZX81 (until the keyboard became unusable), the ZX Spectrum was my first computer that I actively programmed on (read: BASIC and tape recorder). Years later I switched to the Sinclair QL, and finally to the PC world (good-bye SuperBASIC, hello Turbo Pascal). By the way, TP’s 30th birthday is just a few months ahead.
Since then, computers have become bigger and fast enough that you can run a ZX Spectrum emulation in JavaScript in a browser on an operation system that requires a million times more disk space than the original computers had memory available!
Despite all that progress, the past is still with us, and will be so for quite some time 
Update: TheRegister has a special on eight-bit classic games featuring mostly the Spectrum.
