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old original hardware, show us :-)
By: Peeto Date: November 12, 2016, 3:53 am
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So guys, if you are passionate about spectrum, you still should
have your old working/broken ones still around the house :-)
Show them here and let us know, if its still working.
This is mine, it is 100% compatibile ZX Spectrum 48KB, made in
csechoslovakia back in 1991, called Didaktik M....that one is
still working, with good condition. I had floppy drive3.5" for
it, but I sold it in old days...so I made audio cable /this
computer has 5pin connector for audio/ and other side with
stereo jack so you I can use it with iphone and load any game i
wish. Than I convert any tap game to mp3 or wav and play it from
iphone to the computer memory, it works and you does not need
old cassete recorder any more :-)
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Re: old original hardware, show us :-)
By: tm Date: November 13, 2016, 2:44 pm
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I have a zx81, zx spectrum, som original games and some other
stuff in the basement, will see if i can find it downthere
within the next couple of days so i can take some pictures,
havent looked at is for ages....
could be fun to see if it still works
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Re: old original hardware, show us :-)
By: tm Date: November 14, 2016, 2:26 pm
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Here is my stuff
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Re: old original hardware, show us :-)
By: Peeto Date: November 14, 2016, 4:29 pm
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EXCELENT stuff! I sold my 3.5 floppy drive + AY chip with some
original ZX games/floppys and cassetes/ and bought some nonsense
like PC 486 or so... what a mistake I did! :-) but I found my
old original joystick and it is still working, so at least
something.
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Re: old original hardware, show us :-)
By: milinks Date: November 14, 2016, 9:13 pm
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[member=10]tm[/member].. WOW! Now THAT is a Christmas stocking I
would seriously be jealous over! I don't think I've seen
anything so impressive Speccy related in many a year! That is
absolutely amazing :) soo jealous right now
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Re: old original hardware, show us :-)
By: tm Date: November 15, 2016, 1:35 am
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@peeto, @milinks
Thanks. :)
Now everything is not from my childhood, one of the zx spectrum
and the opus drive is, and also some of the tapes then I have
lots of 3.5 "disks which arent on the picture.
For around 5-6 years ago I was at a flea market here in Denmark
and there was a guy that was a selling lots of spectrum
equipment, he didnt know what it was, he just sold it for a
friend, so I was lucky to get it very cheap, around 30 -35
pound. It was one of the ZX spectrum, ZX81, some of the tapes
and the small tapedisks.
Unfortunately then the rubberpad beneath the keyboard, on one of
the ZX spectrums, crumbling/tenderize (Dont know the correct
word) on the wires that connects to the main board so you cant
write on it any more. I've been thinking on trying to replace it
somehow but dont know how to do that yet, so thats something
that i will try to take a look at some day.
Edit
About the sinclair books (From chris wilkins) at the last image,
if you dont know them then i can recommend them, they're quite
good and brings lot's of childhood memories.
(They where a kickstarter project)
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Re: old original hardware, show us :-)
By: tm Date: November 15, 2016, 2:14 am
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@peeto you're lucky that yours still works perfect it also looks
like it's in a good condition. the keyboard also looks quite
good.
one thing that i never liked about the original ZX spectrum was
the spongy keyboard.
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Re: old original hardware, show us :-)
By: Peeto Date: November 15, 2016, 4:38 am
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@tm, honestly.... my original old one, I was not manage to
repair it, so I cheat a bit/bought another one very cheaply no
ebay/aukro with better condition and I mixed these two and take
the best from each to build 1 in best condition/ :-) that is the
secret. I changed some keys and so on. But, this model does not
have very good keys, they start to "freeze" or how to describe
it and I have to change some.
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Re: old original hardware, show us :-)
By: Spec-chum Date: November 16, 2016, 9:46 am
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Here's a pic of sometimes how I have my +3 set up with a
external 3.5'' disk drive, multiface 3, cassette recorder, and a
Techniplus swift controller:-
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Re: old original hardware, show us :-)
By: Peeto Date: November 16, 2016, 9:56 am
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Spec-chum - very sweet! Where are the times of using floppy
discs :-)
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