am on the lookout for zx spectrums

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I'd bloody love to play Midnight Resistance or Hero again though.

I was a Speccy kid for a time, mostly had +2As. I think they're unfairly maligned. So the Amstrads weren't as pretty as the Sinclair models, but the built-in tape was handy, and at least they had proper keyboards!

Must admit I loved the look of the original 128, though. I had one for a while, but I'd managed to blow it up the first night I had it and it was never resurrected.  :-(

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I was gonna say £30.

The Microdrive was introduced with the QL and was another typically ill-fated Sinclair baby. It was marketed for the Speccy as an Interface 1 add-on but by the time the +3 came along it had already proven itself horribly unreliable.

'Course, Amstrad then made its own mistake in going with 3" floppies after the 3.5" had been established.

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Vincent wrote:

They have to be the most awkward, clunky and slow tape devices ever devised.  They got chewed up a lot aswell.  No, not by the dog :-P

Tutor: "Let me guess, dog ate it?"
Student: "No, I saved it on a Microdrive (TM)"