@Zetro
I have been after one of these for ages,
I have so many Spectrums of all flavours with all sorts of storage devices, internal SDMMC interfaces etc
and £30 is only £30 anyway
so long as her indoors dont find out :shock:
she says I have to many Amigas, Spectrums, C64 etc etc
third floor is a shrine to all things retro
A bit of a story behind my one, I had a ZX Spectrum back when I lived in the UK, with LOTS of addons. The 48K didnt work, but the addons did, Interface 1, Power switch on it etc. Then My parents and i moved to Australia, and we didnt have room and my parents decided that ZX Spectrum had to stay locked in the attic. When they went back to sell the house, The attic was broken in to, and everything was gone (or so they said). Subsequently I bought myself another 48K I saw at a swapmeet one day, as a memory thing if nothing else.
My wife calls all my Amiga's, and the Zx Spectrum, the "Museum". Likewise she says I have too much
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It is amazing the levels that people go to incorporate newer technology in to older devices. I knew they had IDE drives incorporated in to ZX Spectrum, but USB ???????? Wow.
The only drawback of the Spectrum, was that all the chips were Surface mounted, Well through holed, not socketed, so any chips that "Popped" either had to be Desoldered, or the unit Junked..., all for the saving of a few pence here and there.
Even if I too am not allowed to buy these by the "Finance Minister", I still get a kick from seeing what other goodies exist.