New member from the UK rediscovering ZX’s

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Daeve
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New member from the UK rediscovering ZX’s

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Hi, Dave here. I’ve been lurking for a long while on and off and finally joined up.

I got my ZX81 in around 82/83 as a hand me down from my cousin who moved “up” (!?) to a BBC model B. I have vivid memories of the ram pack wobble and trying to save type ins with much frustration and quickly went back to the Atari 2600 we had for a more instant “hit”. I finally got into computing for real with a Spectrum plus Christmas 84 I think which lasted a good 7 or 8 years.
After picking up a Jupiter Ace recently which had fascinated me for years and backing the Spectrum Next (already have a board in a modified speccy I thought I’d better have another go with my first computer again, I fancied doing some refurbishing of old systems after learning soldering and getting into basic electronics.

Managed to pick up a custom case/keyboard Zeddy which I’m about to explore and a couple of other standard case models, the plan was to do some composite mods and any repairs and eventually build a custom keyboard. This forum has been great, learned loads and realized I knew next to nothing!
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Welcome on board Dave!

:D :D :D

Enjoy the forum :D

Shout out if you need help :mrgreen:

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Welcome here!
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Hi Dave and welcome here.

BTW Have you sill got the Juppiter ACE?
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Daeve
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Thanks for the nice welcome :)

Yep still got the Ace, not got round the composite mod (ZXVid) yet, was planning a crazy idea of making a vacuum former and/or silicon mound and resin cast and trying to make a new one. Very long term project I reckon. I picked up the Parts to build a replica a couple of months ago and would need something to house it in (once i’ve Improved my soldering and electronics knowledge to be able to troubleshoot it!).

Before cleaning:
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After:
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Partial clean, some bottom case damage previously repaired before I bought it:
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So you are the lucky one, who won the auction on this unit. Congratulation!
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