Paging NE-Z80 owners! Paging NE-Z80 owners!

Hi Alexandre! I did not had a NE-Z80 but an early model TK-82C. It had a SLOW function at the keyboard but it lacks the circuitry to proper respond to it.I can say it used a copy of the ZX-81 EPROM. When later I built a SLOW pig board circuit it worked as expected on original ZX-81. The TK-82C and NE-Z80 circuit was identical to ZX-80. And behave like the ZX-80 if you adapt it's EPROM to those. What Microdigital (TK-82) and Prologica (NE-Z80) did on those time was use standard parts. Copying the ZX-80 circuit to avoid the custom chip used in ZX-81. So , Yes, you can use the ZX-81 ROM image in a NE-Z80 as it had the same and exactly content. The ZX clones started to differ from the original when they started producing TK-85, CP-200 and others. Some licensed by Sinclair, I Believe. Ricardo ________________________________ Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 04:31:47 -0200 From: "Alexandre Souza - Listas" <pu1bzz.listas at gmail.com> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" ??? <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Subject: Paging NE-Z80 owners! Paging NE-Z80 owners! Message-ID: <2237C930DAFB4896972390429F5A2A88 at tababook> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; ??? reply-type=response ? ? Who knows? :o) ? ? Anyone on this list has the "Nova Eletronica NE-Z80" computer from Brazil? ? ? I'm finishing restoring a pair, but none of them has the original EPROM with the firmware. I've never seen one of these in person before (it is a RARE computer in Brazil) and although it is a "mostly perfect" clone of the ZX-80, the keyboard is a bit different - it is exactely the keyboard of the ZX-81 but without the "slow" function. Is it the ZX-81 ROM, or a modified one? ? ? Thanks ? ? Alexandre Souza