I saw an HN thread for this:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spectrumnext/zx-spectrum-next-issue-2
It looks like a lot of money for a pretty niche device (a whole 2MB RAM!), but it still looks very cool:
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My very first āhomeā computer was a SINCLAIR ZX81
The ZX81 was designed to be small, simple, and above all, inexpensive, with as few components as possible. It uses only four silicon chips and a mere 1 KB of memory that can officially be expanded externally to 16 KB (which I did). Operating system Sinclair BASIC, Central processing unit Z80 @ 3.25 MHz|
I bought mine in the kit form.
Pudge
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Dunno why they didnāt just stick the pi zero by itself in the shell and call it a day. For such low end hardware I donāt see the concern about emulation at all.
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Canāt argue there. Seems it would have saved a LOT of money, and the emulation should still be perfectly good speed given what itās emulating.
Amiga is all the rage this days:
Although not many fancy updated ones - pure old-school 
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Thatās a āmodernā one - Real Amigas are A1000ās 
Or, possibly, A2500/030āsā¦ 
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Amiga 500 was the first computer I ever used! A wonderful machine. Its ādesktop environmentā Workbench, was also very well designed:
I like the colour palette, nice blue and orange, plus white and black. Much nicer than CGI 
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So was mine! I think that was the one I did backups of programs on audio cassette tape, if I remember correctly, which is kind of weird in retrospect. Loved that little computer.
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Of course it was āthemableā tooā¦(I ran with a darker blue and different colour depth for SPEED most of the time). Depending on the monitor, you could stretch it out too - nominally 640x200 - you could set it to 704x410 on my NEC. Seemed like hi-res for those days!
Notice the close button on the correct (left) side! Donāt understand how MS managed to make people think it should be on the right! (even they left a way out on the left - if you look for it)
Edit: Of course, that was the 1985 version of the system (4 bad colour CGA was extra cost for PCs at the time) - but hereās where it went later (1990?):
- a little easier on the brainā¦
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Very cool channel btw on Retro tech and software
Hereās 3 part ZX history
Thereās also playlist full of Atari etc, enjoy old-schoolers 
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Iāve started my computing endeavour in the 80s (I was 5 and was typing programming from a hand written code notebook just for the curiosity of seeing what happens after I typed RUN + Enter :P) with a ZX spectrum clone. Canāt remember the specs, I could probably find them online, but this sounds like an expensive nostalgia trip. Like making fire with some overpriced sticks.
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After flirting with a Commodore 64 belonging to my friend, and a spectrum, I picked up an Amiga 500 - took 3 weeks to load a game (1 week for the stamped addressed envelope to arrive, another week for the rack of floppies to come back, and then another week to load them all upā¦ 13 disks for Sensible Brothers Cannon Fodder.
I can still remember those names - Jools, Stoo - the way that you get a list of names of the ones who die after every round. Amazing times - and rather expensive.
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https://www.youtube.com/user/craig1black
And try this one - he finds and fixes all sorts of old stuff, spectrums, commodores etc
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Atari ST featuring the famous Ballerburg.
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I had a BBC B then an archimedes, before I got a Windows based PC.
Little did I know how far that RISC chip would go.
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BBC B was very cool, I played with a few of them but I couldnāt afford to buy one at the time.
I remember one thing - you plug it in your TV, and turn it on - ready. No ābootā ROFL. Now you have to turn on and waitā¦
I think it had about 32k onboard RAM (32 chips) and a 6800 series processor at about 2MHz. Great fun writing stuff in BASIC and going through the huge fat manual that came with it.
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Somewhat reminds me of my Amstrad CPC, Z80 and a whopping 128K RAMā¦ I miss it so much 
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Yeah, me tooā¦
Back when programs had to be actually effective and performant to survive this whopping whoooops! 
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+1000 
Ballerburg and the drawing program āDegasā (?) were my big favourites on the ST.
Unfortunately I donāt have the ST anymore eitherā¦
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The Beeb had a 6502 CPU and could take a Z80 as an add on for CP/M and the like.