ZX-81 Question

Take a stable ZX81 or TS1000 and pull off the composite video to feed a monitor. Add a decent keyboard and bump the RAM to 64KB. You'll want a printer and a good cassette recorder, too. If you don't plan to add any hardware which requires a ROM, then you might want to add NVRAM to the unoccupied 8-16K address space. A Hunter board is perfect for this, if you can find one. If you require hardware which could benefit from having code in ROM, then the 8-16K space can be used by an add-on ROM. Yes! The ZX-TEAM home page is a good place to start: http://home.t-online.de/home/p.liebert/zx-team.htm Kai Fischer's ZX96 page shows an example of how far you can take this machine: http://home.freiepresse.de/befis/zx96_e.htm Zebra Systems in NYC still sells unbuilt kits, but they are expensive: http://www.zebrasystems.com/zebrasystems/zx81/index.html For software, visit the University of Trondheim archive: ftp://ftp.nvg.unit.no/pub/sinclair/zx81/ You can download the software and transfer it from a DOS-based PC to the ZX81 using ZXTAPE and a modified PC-type parallel printer cable. One program which is indispensable if FASTLOAD, which allows 4800 baud cassette I/O, as opposed to the native 300 baud. This means you can LOAD a 16 KB program from cassette in < 40 seconds instead of 5 minutes. The possibilities really are endless. My main ZX81 has an 80 MB hard drive hung off it, which I will never come close to outgrowing. Let me know if you have more questions . . . Glen 0/0