Hi,
Jules Richardson said:
Tony Duell wrote:
I bought an MK14 back when it was current. That
put me off Sinclair for
life...
Out of interest, what was so bad about them that wasn't typical of that class
of machine around that time? Admittedly without having been involved at the
time, it seems with hindsight that there were an awful lot of similar machines
I
never had any problems with my Mk14 (which I've still got and it still
works), an issue 2 board. The keypad was trouble right from the start and
was immediately replaced with a modified telephone one, and it's worked fine
ever since. The cassete interface, however, was a different matter, it would
shed print if you just looked at it funny with a soldering iron.
Like all Sinclair gear, designed down to a price - and then some!
I'm afraid I seem to have lost my homebrew inout relay board and sound
interface, but I think I've got the schematic somewhere...
I also have a ZX81, but the only Sinclair bit left is the main board/
processor etc. Even the ROM has been changed, and it's in a large
metal box with a 16K rampack, 2 inout boards and an 8 channel A2d card.
Ah, the good old days...
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Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb at
dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!