Spider Posted April 29, 2021 Report Share Posted April 29, 2021 Some hardware pics taken yesterday. I'll replace this line of text with a link or two later today or tomorrow. +2A ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 48K Plus / Microdrive / Kempston andrewbroad, jetsetdanny, MtM and 1 other 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spider Posted May 9, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2021 And some non Speccy pics... MtM and jetsetdanny 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtM Posted May 13, 2021 Report Share Posted May 13, 2021 Some mega old hardware there Andy! Worth a fortune that lot on Ebay ... Spider 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spider Posted May 14, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 14, 2021 23 hours ago, MtM said: Some mega old hardware there Andy! Worth a fortune that lot on Ebay ... Thanks. 🙂 FWIW or not: Speccy Combo here Oric Atmos here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewbroad Posted June 13, 2021 Report Share Posted June 13, 2021 On 4/29/2021 at 5:06 PM, Spider said: These two pics give me a warm nostalgic glow. I acquired a Spectrum +2 in 1988 after my 48K Spectrum died, but the Datacorder didn't like my JSW II cassette. Then in 1991, I managed to load JSW II into the +2 after copying it onto another cassette. Spider and jetsetdanny 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spider Posted June 13, 2021 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2021 Did you note the blue power led on the +2A/B ? 🙂 I did 'back then' have one of the very first grey +2's , complete with the sound slightly out of sync with the TV picture. It also featured 'quick snap' tape keys 😞 , a few months out of warranty, possible before that too. Used half a wooden clothes peg to operate , it was fine like that for the next few years. It was not be being a harsh hamfisted teenager then either 🙂 As I discovered much years later the thickness of the plastic keys where they 'wrap over' the metal support bar was slightly thicker, certainly I've not seen another one do it. That's where they snapped anyway on the 'bend' part. Did not have any real loading issues with the grey +2 that I recall, I'd guess just a bit of good luck in that part at least. Sorry to hear you had some issues with yours. Perhaps it was just a slightly off duplicate runoff or tape itself. I do remember the original Dynamite Dan I had, the leader tones for the speedloading part were warbling a bit, I'd assumed it was normal until I tried a few other tzx's years later! So a slightly iffy original tape even a high quality one is possible I guess. Mind you, the multipage codesheet -was- really annoying on that, the colour choices too, reminded me of the Amstrad one (no surprise there) I do have a 'one byte change only' original release, the one with the single headerless block (well its original apart from that one byte) tape file, the single and only change is to let it accept any code, avoiding any nonsense! 🙂 It was about the same time as me, I do recall as pennies had been saved for a long time and I was Speccy-less for a few months getting one from Curry's as soon as they appeared. jetsetdanny 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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