Tuesday, 2 September 2014

Every Color of the Rainbow, so long as it's Magenta or Cyan

So, I've branched out a little.  A schoolteacher friend of mine found a couple of classic Sinclair computers buried in the cupboards at his school:  A ZX81, and a 48k ZX Spectrum+.  The ZX81 was missing a power supply, and the Spectrum was missing nothing, but the keyboard wasn't working:  A common complaint in old Speccies.

Here's the thing.  I have a not insubstantial collection of old Speccies in various states of "not working", including a Plus and a Sinclair 128, both of which use the same keyboard, so I figured we'd be able to get both going in maybe an hour or so.

No.  Ha.

No comments:

Post a Comment