Author: stevecrozier
Date: December 29, 2020
So for a while I’ve had an Acorn A3020 I purchased in the UK, which was waiting for me to pick up or ship to the US. As a thoughtful Christmas gift my brother carefully packaged this up with mouse and other peripherals and mailed it across to me. It’s turned out to be in […]
Author: stevecrozier
Date: May 30, 2020
I’ve had my Issue 4B 48k ZX Spectrum for quite some years now. When I first got hold of it I replaced the keyboard membrane and did the mandatory composite video modification (taking the modulator input directly through to the output via a decoupling capacitor), and it’s been working away very happily ever since. However, […]
Author: stevecrozier
Date: May 10, 2020
Over the Christmas Holiday period managed to snag an original, part assembled ZX Spectrum RS232/Modem Interface from ebay, originally sold by Maplin back in the early 80’s. I went for this specifically since the ROM was included (because the Spectrum doesn’t use ASCII it’s necessary to boot from an external ROM which contains a translator […]