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ZX Spectrum has been listed as one of the Engineering and technology good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

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Date	Process	Result
September 19, 2006	Good article nominee	Listed
September 19, 2008	Good article reassessment	Kept
April 9, 2018	Good article reassessment	Delisted
May 20, 2024	Good article nominee	Listed
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on June 12, 2024. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the ZX Spectrum (pictured) is one of the best-selling British computers of all time?
Current status: Good article

The following references may be useful when improving this article in the future:

Brown, Nathan (23 April 2012). "The making of the ZX Spectrum". Edge. Future plc.
Corriea, Alexa Ray (30 April 2014). "ZX Spectrum keyboard maker pays overdue royalties, cancels contracts with devs". Polygon. Vox Media.
del Vas, Jesús Martínez (April 2019). "Investronica: El pulso español del ZX Spectrum". Retro Gamer España (in Spanish) (27). Axel Springer: 32–41. — [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10]

This article was nominated for merging with Attribute clash on 8 November 2015. The result of the discussion was not merge.

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