Does anyone recognise this Spectrum interface?

edited May 2013 in Chit chat
I have no idea what it is. It has a 5 pin plug that connects to...?
MysteryInterface1.jpg
MysteryInterface2.jpg
Any thoughts?
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  • ZupZup
    edited May 2013
    DIN 5 were found at audio equipment (my cassette and my old TV had it), but I don't know why would you need to connect audio to the expansi?n bus (a remote control? a turboload?).
    I was there, too
    An' you know what they said?
    Well, some of it was true!
  • edited May 2013
    Looks like some sort of MIDI interface.
  • edited May 2013
    Ooh! I love these quizzes! :grin:

    Looks like a capacitor between 0V and 9V (pins 4 and 6 on bottom).
    Also, resistors on the U,V,Y lines (pins 14-16 on bottom).

    Therefore this must be a composite video out for a computer monitor (which also tallies with the 5-pin DIN which was popular with monitors at the time)

    http://www.bneven.com/zxio.html
  • fogfog
    edited May 2013
    Vampyre wrote: »
    Looks like some sort of MIDI interface.

    not a good one ..normally you have at least a midi in+out.. and maybe a thru (2-3 sockets)

    I was gonna say what Baz did
  • edited May 2013
    It's for a Microvitec Cub Monitor. Think the photo here with the lead is "faked"

    http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=SinclairPrograms/Issue8403/Pages/SinclairPrograms840300023.jpg
  • edited May 2013
    Retro-J wrote: »
    It's for a Microvitec Cub Monitor. Think the photo here with the lead is "faked"

    http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=SinclairPrograms/Issue8403/Pages/SinclairPrograms840300023.jpg
    Yeah, the magazine advert has a "fake" (or mocked up) photo - the lead appears to come from the aerial port when in fact it goes straight into the interface. I've found over recent days that a few hardware accessories had "artist impressions" rather than a representation of the real thing.

    Thanks for your input Retro-J, Bloodbaz and others. :)

    This is way too niche (and is also untested) for me to eBay, so if someone in the UK wants it for the cost of postage (?2.60) then PM me. [EDIT] Now gone!
  • edited May 2013
    where is my local dealer? I want the information rushed to me.
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