Anybody read this yet?
Diary Of An 80s Computer Geek: A Decade of Micro Computers, Video Games and Cassette Tape
I got through it all this morning! It is kinda short though but he goes through the journey from the heady days of the ZX81 up to the 16-bits. What is interesting about it, is that his roles go from user, to programmer, to publisher (in a small way) to salesperson.
Okay so he was a Speccy owner but the experiences for us all were similar enough.