hhh might have to sell my spectrum. :<

I wasn't gonna play it I suppose, I was gonna maybe stick it in a display case, because I can just... you know, emulate perfectly the whole thing without the wait times and stuff. Still, feels like cutting off part of my childhood.

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....you know what on second thoughts I don't feel quite as bad about this as I did? This way at least someone will get to enjoy it too, maybe! Heck it might get used at least instead of just... sitting there. Neglected.

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@Nine like a ZX spectrum? ohh it would be really neat to get to play with one of those though i understand the keyboard is horrible

@Felthry Actually it's a +2A 128K? So it's got the modern more mechanical styled clacky keyboard and built in "DataCorder" tape deck. ^^

@Nine we've actually been thinking about maybe getting a C64 or something to just, kinda try out what those old computers were like (they're before our time, we were born in 1994 and our first computer ran windows 95)

@Nine oh and now i've realized even if you were willing to ship to the us and ask a price we could afford we wouldn't be able to use it because it'd be a PAL unit and no way are we going out of our way to get a PAL television and a voltage converter (and this thing might be picky about having 50Hz too, since a lot of things from that time period synchronized things to the mains frequency for video signals i think)

@Nine now i'm thinking about how you could make a PAL-to-NTSC converter and damn i don't think this kind of thing would have even been possible at the time, with 80s technology

i wonder if they exist now though

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