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NumptyNuts
11-13-07, 09:13 AM
JT has kindly sent me a home computer, it makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up - missus aint too chuffed though seeing how I have it set up in the fron room - just check out this spec!
NAME ZX SPECTRUM +2
MANUFACTURER Sinclair
TYPE Home Computer
ORIGIN United Kingdom
YEAR 1986
BUILT IN LANGUAGE Sinclair Basic 48k (compatibility mode) and Sinclair Basic 128k
KEYBOARD Full-stroke keyboard, 58 keys
same layout as the ZX Spectrum+
CPU Zilog Z80 A
SPEED 3.5469 MHz
RAM 128 kb (8 x 16k banks)
ROM Spectrum +2 : 32 kb
Spectrum +2A/B : 64k
TEXT MODES 32 x 24
GRAPHIC MODES 256 x 192
COLORS 8 with two tones each (normal and bright)
SOUND 3 channels, 8 octaves (Yamaha AY-3-8912)
SIZE / WEIGHT 44 x 17,5 x 5,5 cm / 1,525 kg
I/O PORTS UHF PAL TV port, Serial interface (RS232) port, Parallel Printer port (8 bit), Auxiliary interface port, RGB Monitor (and PERITEL TV) port, MIDI output port, Two Joystick ports, Tape/Audio Out, Expansion I/O port (full Z80 bus)
BUILT IN MEDIA Tape Recorder
POWER SUPPLY External PSU
Spectrum +2 = 9v DC, 2.1A (centre polarity = -ve)
Spectrum +2A/B = 5V @ 2A, +12V @ 200mA, -12V @ 50mA (Spectrum+3 PSU can be used)
PRICE £200 (UK, 1986)
242 (France, january 1987)
http://www.freepalmporn.co.uk/ZX-Spectrum-128k+2.jpg
Johnny Kleenexxx
11-13-07, 09:17 AM
chucked mine out years ago not thinking
those tape loading arcade games (http://www.420arcade.com) were a total ball ache
lol, I must remember to stop drinking while surfing ebay :alc:
I've got a shit load of games for this if you are interested.
samrogers
11-13-07, 11:09 AM
phwoar ;) makes me hanker after my old tape drive Comadore 64.
Manys the happy time i spent on it.... Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading Loading CRASH
Elisha Jade
11-13-07, 12:09 PM
Oooh oooooo I used to love my spectrum! Except I had a teenage tantrum and threw it against a wall never to work again :(
wingless
11-13-07, 01:42 PM
gladly thats a little before my time
Johnny Kleenexxx
11-13-07, 01:54 PM
gladly thats a little before my time
haha . . gladly ?
you haven't lived until you've try to load a shit spectrum game for 3 hours
WordsforHire
11-13-07, 01:56 PM
Welllll before my time - looks a bit prehistoric actually
Elisha Jade
11-13-07, 01:57 PM
I aint that bloody old!
Johnny Kleenexxx
11-13-07, 01:59 PM
Welllll before my time - looks a bit prehistoric actually
yeah whatever lol . . you'll be saying we played games on a black and white TV next
haha . . gladly ?
you haven't lived until you've try to load a shit spectrum game for 3 hours
LOL too true. Later I had an Atari ST, used to play the original version of Championship Manager on it, would be on the verge of winning the title after three or four seasons, and it would suddenly announce that there was no memory left :oldman:
WordsforHire
11-13-07, 01:59 PM
I bet there weren't even TV's back in your time.
Johnny Kleenexxx
11-13-07, 02:03 PM
I bet there weren't even TV's back in your time.
yeah i went to school in newspaper shoes and i lived on cod liver oil
wingless
11-13-07, 02:04 PM
I aint that bloody old!
well when that thing was launched i was 1 lol
Johnny Kleenexxx
11-13-07, 02:04 PM
i can remember what i was doing when Lennon got shot . . but not Kennedy
yeah whatever lol . . you'll be saying we played games on a black and white TV next
wouldn't have mattered, Pong was B/W anyway :oldman:
WordsforHire
11-13-07, 02:19 PM
When was the spectrum launched?
My first PC was a XZ80... I built it myself (They came in kit form)
It was shit, so I built a ZX81 and learnt 'Basic'...
By the time the Spectrum arrived, I was using a Vic20, and had accsess to a Sharp MZ80K, and by the time the one above had put in appearence, I was into my Atari ST...
Those were the days though...
wingless
11-13-07, 02:39 PM
1986 i think, my first pc was a 386
WordsforHire
11-13-07, 02:39 PM
I wasn't even born.
wingless
11-13-07, 02:42 PM
I wasn't even born.
great now i feel old again, i with i was 18 again
1986 i think, my first pc was a 386
i had an 8086 once
Elisha Jade
11-13-07, 04:10 PM
1986, I was 5. Sounds about right. I used to program on it and make really cool applications and play dizzy the egg. Good times!
1986, I was 5. Sounds about right. I used to program on it and make really cool applications and play dizzy the egg. Good times!
Heh I used to play Dizzy aswell.
1986 - I wasnt born till a year later.
Used to have an Amiga, Amstrad, Atari, Spectrum ... the lot.
Did you use BASIC Elisha????
Anyone remember International Karate Plus?????
http://www.bitetv.ca/blog/archives/NERDS.jpg
Wow my idolzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz *drools*
Anyone remember International Karate Plus?????
There was a cheat to make their pants fall down. It was funny and NOT AT ALL homoerotic. Really.
Elisha Jade
11-13-07, 04:46 PM
Heh I used to play Dizzy aswell.
1986 - I wasnt born till a year later.
Used to have an Amiga, Amstrad, Atari, Spectrum ... the lot.
Did you use BASIC Elisha????
Yep, lol and Visual Basic when I got a bit older. Can't remember any of it now though.
wingless
11-13-07, 04:56 PM
vb is quite handy, that was my first language and its so similer to asp it made the change easy
smoothballs
11-13-07, 05:02 PM
I went from black & white ping pong/hand held space invaders/commodore 64/amiga/pc looki at me now mamma! :)
Bradderzzz
11-13-07, 08:17 PM
Amstrad CPC 464 for the win:-
http://nacho.cps.unizar.es/Computers/AmstradCPC464.jpg
Had a bbc before that tho cos my Mum worked in a school that had them.
NumptyNuts
11-15-07, 11:55 AM
Amstrad CPC 464 for the win:-
http://nacho.cps.unizar.es/Computers/AmstradCPC464.jpg
Had a bbc before that tho cos my Mum worked in a school that had them.
I played Harrier Attack on one of those round a mates loved it.....
My cousin still has one of those boxed in her loft - Have to say always wanted one though never got one, they looked so cool
You are all snobs! My first one was a Spectrum 48 which had an external cassette player - only rich people could afford one with the inbuilt player!
JaneForester
11-15-07, 06:16 PM
We still have a fully working Sinclair +3 (the one with the disk drive!)
NumptyNuts
11-15-07, 06:22 PM
We still have a fully working Sinclair +3 (the one with the disk drive!)
like this one?
http://www.museo8bits.com/anuncios/spectrum3_nov90.jpg
can you beleive how expensive it is?
JaneForester
11-15-07, 06:24 PM
like this one?
http://www.museo8bits.com/anuncios/spectrum3_nov90.jpg
can you beleive how expensive it is?
That's the badboy!
I remember I had 'Head over Heels' on it, and everything!
NumptyNuts
11-15-07, 06:35 PM
That's the badboy!
I remember I had 'Head over Heels' on it, and everything!
My friend who played footy with us over the park - older bloke dead odd too was a graphic guy, he worked for Ocean on that game and three others with is pal - his name is on the front of the boxes....
I spent hours listening to him explaining the ways out of the maze and asking who he drew and why. You may remeber Prince Charles is in there. His other games I didnt think much of, Batman & Mathc Day II - Bernie his name, nice geezer but a bizzare.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSTO4Qtyanc
You are all snobs! My first one was a Spectrum 48 which had an external cassette player - only rich people could afford one with the inbuilt player!
Me too Jase.
I bought mine, aged 11, with MY OWN MONEY too (I did some child acting)!
Then I saw WarGames, and tried to wire up my external cassette deck with my radio tuned into 'computer noises' and tried to be a l33t haxx0r.
I didn't get too far with that.
:D
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