Rubber keys and cassettes
The Spectrum had a rubber keyboard, plugged into a TV, and programs loaded from an ordinary cassette recorder. Loading a game could take five minutes with the typical screeching. Every key carried several BASIC commands.
Didaktik from Skalica
From 1987 the Didaktik Skalica company produced the Didaktik Gama, compatible with the Spectrum. The Didaktik M (1990) and the Didaktik Kompakt with a floppy drive followed. For many Slovaks and Czechs it was their first computer.
PMD 85 from Piešťany
The PMD 85 was a personal microcomputer developed at Tesla Piešťany. It was used mainly in schools in the 1980s and had its own community of programmers and games.
Legacy
First games were made on these machines in garages and bedrooms. Professional game studios later grew out of that scene; see The Slovak games scene.