[ubuntu-uk] Looking for a Speccy

Tommy Pyatt tommy.pyatt at googlemail.com
Fri Mar 26 19:06:21 GMT 2010


My first experience with programming was on a Spectrum +2 using BASIC, I was
about 8 years old with no real friends. It's a shame though, my programming
skills haven't progressed much since then.

Tommy

On 26 March 2010 18:53, Philip Stubbs <philip at stuphi.co.uk> wrote:

> On 26 March 2010 18:06, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Your nomenclature is wrong. There were 4 models of ZX Spectrum from
> > Sinclair & 3 models from Amstrad:
> >
> > Sinclair Research
> >
> > ZX Spectrum (16K) - the original, rubber-keys one
> > ZX Spectrum (48K) - same rubber keys, more RAM
> > ZX Spectrum Plus - 48K, plastic chiclet keyboard
> > ZX Spectrum 128 - 128KB RAM, chiclet keyboard with a big heatsink on
> > one side, GA-AY-8910 sound chip
> >
> > Amstrad
> >
> > Spectrum +2 - grey, built-in datasette recorder
> > Spectrum +3 - black, built-in 3" (*not* 3.5") floppy disk drive
> > Spectrum +2A - black, FDD removed & replaced with built-in datesette
> recorder
> >
> > You are after a ZX Spectrum Plus, by the sound of it.
>
> I was going to make some joke about anoraks, but really I am still
> jealous of the kids at school who had spectrum's.
>
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> Philip Stubbs
>
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