23 Oct
2009
23 Oct
'09
9:30 a.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
Well there are currently 3 ZX80s for sale on ebay.co.uk and it's not
that often that there is not at least one up for sale.
On Oct 22, 2009, at 6:34 PM, Phill Harvey-Smith
wrote:
Not having any minicomputer experience I can't comment on this.
Indeed, the ironic thing is of course that most
of those components
are worth not that much at all as the ZX80 is pretty much LSTTL,
standard RAM, CPU etc.
The same can be said for most 1970s minicomputers. And what about all
those cheap transistors in a Straight-8? Wow I guess one of those is
only worth about twenty bucks. I guess the
board and case is rarer though, even so I think about
70,000 ish ZX80s where made so it's actually not that rare at all,
though I guess unbuilt ones are not that common.
ZX80s are approximately as rare as hens' teeth. Go try to find one. I have. Perhaps you're thinking of ZX81s.
Nope I have a ZX80 and a couple of 81s (including an unbuilt kit one).
Though since, from your siggy you are in the US, they probably are much
less common over there, I dunno if Sinclair ever sold them outside the
UK, I know that he had a deal with Timex for the ZX81.
Cheers.
Phill.
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Phill Harvey-Smith, Programmer, Hardware hacker, and general eccentric !
"You can twist perceptions, but reality won't budge" -- Rush.