Greetings From Upstate New York

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Lardo, in your opinion, what would be the best thread to post it in? I will gladly scan the photocopied sheets that I received with my kit and post it there. I'm guessing there is no copyright issues I need be worried about, right?
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I would not worry about copyright on the build instructions. I posted the ZX80 build instructions and a few book scans including all of the TS1500 learning stuff…

Put them at the end of my rebuild thread? I can then revise the BOM at some point.
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code-surfer-dev wrote: Mon Jan 03, 2022 4:06 am That is absolutely correct "zebranyc" is the ebay store/user that I purchased the kit from. Just checked back on his store and it looks like he sold the last one and now only has books, cassettes, and printer paper. Do you know him?

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Fantastic, thanks for the heads up! So that means it is happening tonight?

I just signed up. Waiting to get an approval.
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code-surfer-dev wrote: Mon Jan 03, 2022 6:40 pm Lardo, in your opinion, what would be the best thread to post it in? I will gladly scan the photocopied sheets that I received with my kit and post it there. I'm guessing there is no copyright issues I need be worried about, right?
We don’t know for certain, but apparently Alan Sugar was not the least bit interested in the ZX81 when Amstrad (*1) bought the Sinclair Research computers section. So it is entirely possible that the ZX81 copyrights stayed with Sinclair Research Ltd. The owner, Sir Clive Sinclair died last year (2021), but the company still exists.

*1 Amstrad was bought by a division of Sky Television.

Even though the documents are still subject to copyright, it is extremely unlikely that anyone publishing them for free will get into any trouble. And I don’t think anyone is going to spend any money taking legal action for a computer design that is 40 years old… Besides which, the U.K. instructions have already been scanned and are available from various web sites.

Can you please start a new topic in the hardware section, then put them, or links to them, in the first post. If they are too large (and hence over the forum limit), and you can’t host them, please upload to the Internet Archive .

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Sounds good. As soon as I get a chance I will scan them and post them and let you all know where.
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code-surfer-dev wrote: Tue Jan 04, 2022 12:08 am Fantastic, thanks for the heads up! So that means it is happening tonight?

I just signed up. Waiting to get an approval.
Yep, tonight! I'm sending you the link in the PMs.
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Got it, thank you!
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