25 Jul
2005
25 Jul
'05
11:19 a.m.
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 03:39 -0700, Arron McLaughlin wrote:
Hi
I'm Arron, 15, from New Zealand.
Hiya and welcome.
Whereabouts in NZ? I used to find there were some nice pickings around
the north island when I was there - still lots to find in junk shops and
scrapyards (unlike here in the UK!). Plus of course garage sales were a
lot more common in NZ and local tips tended to be much more geared
toward recycling, so old machines would be picked out and put up for
sale for a couple of bucks...
Yesterday I just finished piecing together two dead
spectrums into one
working unit. I had a few problems with screen quality so I replaced
the modulator with a little composite circuit. Better quality, though
flicker still remains.Might add a power switch also. This has been my
first foray into Sinclair machines.
The speccy was what got me started in computing. Amazing little machines
for the price really - the C64 was probably better (at least graphics-
wise) but more expensive, and the BBC B was a real killer, but probably
twice the price of a speccy.
I got rid of my Sinclair collection last year to concentrate on some of
my other machines, but I kept one 48K machines (and all my games from
way back when) for sentimental reasons...
Are there any other New Zealanders here? I met Ethan
Dicks a while ago
on his way through the country.
It doesn't seem to be as much of a hobby there as it is in the UK, US
etc. - which probably means there's scope for you to build up a really
nice collection if you so wanted.
cheers
Jules