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I recently acquired a Spectravideo 328 with a PSU and a tape drive. It was working but it was missing one keycap and the rod of the key was broken. Therefore I then got a second unit that was also missing some keys, dismantled both and got one complete unit and the other as spare. Both units work and even the keyless one can be used. I got only one PSU though.
Here's one picture of my SVIs:
Spectravideo 328 has a pretty good basic but it is not easily expandable. To base unit you can pretty much attach only the tape drive. For everything else you need an expander unit that provides a slot for other peripherals. For example, if you want to have a disk drive, you need the expander slot, a disk drive interface and then of course the disk drive. At the other end there is the SVI 605 expander unit that transforms the meager 328 into PeeCee like behemoth with 5 expansion slots and bays for two disk drives or even hard disks. Those expanders are ultra rare at least here in Finland. Would be nice to get at least a disk drive and few game cartridges though.
Has anyone else on this board owned a Spectravideo?
Here's one picture of my SVIs:
Spectravideo 328 has a pretty good basic but it is not easily expandable. To base unit you can pretty much attach only the tape drive. For everything else you need an expander unit that provides a slot for other peripherals. For example, if you want to have a disk drive, you need the expander slot, a disk drive interface and then of course the disk drive. At the other end there is the SVI 605 expander unit that transforms the meager 328 into PeeCee like behemoth with 5 expansion slots and bays for two disk drives or even hard disks. Those expanders are ultra rare at least here in Finland. Would be nice to get at least a disk drive and few game cartridges though.
Has anyone else on this board owned a Spectravideo?
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