Sinclair ZX80 / ZX81 / Z88 Forums

There's one on eBay at the moment

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/325985480073

My Dad who knew nothing about computers other than the fact that they were going to be important at some point bought the family a ZX81. Sounds pretty mass market to me! I owe my career in IT to that zeddy. :D Indeed, That Xmas Zeddy was both mine and my sister's xmas prezzy. Here I am DC for a con...

Lardo Boffin wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2024 11:56 am ZX80 cassette cable:


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oh wow, that's a blast from the past, I think my childhood zeddy had those leads

The bottom one?

If you have, can borrow, beg another TV, definitely worth it to save a wild goose chase. Mark Yes, I really should have learnt from the last time shouldn’t I? 🙄 To be honest I’ve kinda enjoyed the journey, even though I’ve ended up with far more Spectrums than I needed …… I also have quite a collec...

Not sure what made me do it, but I tried all my issue 2 boards on the jvc telly in the bedroom (no not loading any dodgy games involving Sam Fox lol) Upshot is that they all tune in fine, including my childhood pcb. Nice solid good colours 😁 Conclusion? Issue 2 pcbs are picky about what telly they d...

I had to change the pcb connectors on my Zeddy as one of them was stripping the conductive layer off an RWAP keyboard ribbon.... On my harlequin 128K I've fitted pin headers to the PCB, currently running adaptors so that a standard ribbon can connect, but as soon as my SPeccherry keyboard is built t...

This is more like it, but mine had no branding etc

https://www.zx81stuff.org.uk/zx81/hardw ... .Front.jpg

Didn’t know about the hardware list, thanks

It’s close from memory, but not quite. Mine was a smaller and fatter box if you get my drift, green edge connector certainly rings a bell though

When I was a kid I had an aftermarket RAM pack on my Zeddy, it was smaller than the Sinclair one, in a rectangular black box. It was supplied with a foam pad to stick to the back of the ZX81 above the edge connector slot to help eliminate the dreaded wobble. Anyone, else had one, remember the make e...