http://www.old-computers.com/museum/...m_keyboard.jpg

aha a speccy!

still got mine somewhere at my parents. Rubber keys :)

Camel Flesh for the keys I believe ;) not rubber....

Ahhh.... Many a moons spent programming my spectrum.
I remember amazing my parents with my creative use of the very limited pallet and basic drawing skills.
That and annoying the pets buy turning the volume up when loading a game :)
Ahh, the joys of fiddling with the tape deck to load games!!! Nostagia at it's best.

Anyone still got a ZX81?

Everyone knew the exact point where they had to have the volumne control to load each game :D One audio lead required or two ? ;)

The joys of having 20 odd games on a C-90 tape :D

White/Grey = Earphone lead for loading, Black Mic lead for saving ;)
Anyone have those 'specially for computers' tape players from boots?
Still have a ZX81 in the loft, still works but the PSU is blown and if I run it of a variable mains adaptor it won't take the 16j rampak :(

Some games required me to have both leads connected to get them to work ! Twas an odd machine. Typed up one of those hex games out of Sinclair User once, didn't work [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img] Never again ! :D Well, until the next issue.

I have four rubber keyed Spectrums, one of them is still boxed, got a Smiths cassette recorder too. You didn't need both leads plugged in to load any games, I don't think the ULA could even use both at the same time, one was for loading and the other saving. I almost have a complete collection of Ultimate titles too, one of them is still sealed and is worth a LOT :) Also have my original Kempston joystick, interface and most importantly the original instructions :) A mint 16k is worth over a hundred quid now, 48ks around 50-60. If you have an original 16k with the fawn-grey keys you can double the 100 quid price tag.

I broke my Kemptston joystick on Daley Thompsons Decathlon.....and my Sinclair Joystick.....and some key contacts....and burnt out the PSU....... :)
I used to have the Microdrive add on with 3D Ant Attack as well.
Had a thermal printer but never used it as I could find no places that sold the special paper.
I had a ZX81 in late 82, then a Spectrum 48K for Xmas 83 (My brother got his mid 83), upgrading it with the Hard Keys a year later (48K+)
I got the Horace games with it (Hungry Horace, Horace goes Skiing, and Horace and the Spiders from Mars).

As in the other thread cheekily asking for your old PC kit, I'll also take any Spectrum stuff off of any of your hands ;)

do you all remember taking ages to type in BASIC games published in magazines, then spend even longer de-bugging them, then after about a weeks work, deleteing it all because it doesn't work!!!!

hahaha what fun!!!
BB:)

3D Monster Maze on the ZX81 anyone ?

I remember seeing a tiny black and white ad in the back of the sunday express colour magazine, weeks after the Spectrum was first released. My dad sent a cheque off for £149.95 and I got my Spectrum 48k!

Played it once, then the pus on the zx81 burnt out as I couldn't run the 16k pak required for the game :(

I have the "fits over the cursor keys joystick" for my old spectrum (16K with ram pack as big as the machine itself). I also still have my interface 1 with microdrives and my interface 2 with cartridges.

Problem is I don't have the speccy- it got used as a target back in my air gun/catapult days. Still I see them all the time at car boot fairs so I might buy one and plug it all in for 5 mins till I remember how crap it is!

My fav retro machine is my old Vectrex console- top machine. Also my colecovision with speech add on.

LOL what a lot of old junk I have!

don't think I'd sell any of it- I would consider a swap for arcade/console related stuff though. Have you got anything interesting?

i got stacks of commodore amiga 500 games if anyone needs any.

the best program being "xcopy".... class.

BB:)

nibble :D

basal, unfortunately not, all I have is a load of Spectrum and Amiga stuff.

No, only reason being those things are worth a fortune :)

are they????I have 7 of them most still in their boxes with the instructions. My girlfriend said I was mad for wasting £1.50 on the last one I bought.

If they're in good condition and old originals, then you're looking at 40-50 quid each.

I'm rich! Now to find out how much my beloved vectrex (still in the box) is worth. Also all those larger battery powered LED games like Astro Wars I have in the loft.

Have a peek on ebay, loads of stuff being sold. Munchman, Marios Cement Factory . . . Those were the days :)

The Kempston joysticks were called "Competition Pro", and the leaf-switch versions were much better than the later microswitch model :)

I think not.
The general consensus at the time was that a microswitch joystick was far better than a leaf spring.

Wrong!

Leafsprings were nasty mechanical things that didn't provide any positive engagement, and frequently bent so they didn't connect properly.

Ugh :(

IYHO ;)

If a microswitch goes, you can just replace it with another one. IIRC they were standard microswitches that you could buy from Maplins and their ilk.
I liked the clicky sound ;)
Arcade games at the time used microswitched joysticks :D