), the 32k version was £175, and I think there was a waiting list at the time. Rubber keys, odd commands, difficult to enter stuff. Ages to load via the cassette, assuming it would at all. I did upgrade the memory by a massive 32k using a box which I plugged in at the back. And I seem to remember modifying it with a piece of copper as a heat sink because they ran so hot. I did learn to use Basic on it but it took ages to do and achieved very little. Hungry Horace etc but my favourite was Space Invaders. I found a site a few years back where you could download some of teh old games to run on a PC simulator app. The later version Mk2? had a key board that was better but I had moved on by then.
I was chatting to the blokes who run the Retro Computer Museum here in Leicester (RCM Home) a couple of years ago, and they reckon a revision one 16k Spectrum fetches over £300 just for the mainboard these days. A pristine boxed version would be a good bit more than that.I bought what was probably one of the first Spectrums. A 16k version for £125 mail order (whats that worth now ?
Yes. ZX80 was white as I recall. ZX81, which I still have (plus a RAM pack) was black. The 80 and 81 refer to the release year, I think.
