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ZX81 Kit build with pics

balfordbalford
edited July 2014 in Sinclair Miscellaneous
Saw this over on reddit - someone's taken one of the unsold ZX81 kits and built it up, taking some pictures along the way :)

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The Spectrum Resuscitation Thread - bringing dead Spectrums back to life
zx-diagnostics - Fixing ZX Spectrums in the 21st Century (wiki)
Sinclair FAQ Wiki

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  • sj_howlettsj_howlett
    edited July 2014
    Good find, very interesting.

    Not sure I would have the courage to pay the asking price for a ZX81 kit and then assemble it together myself.
  • pmsrpmsr
    edited July 2014
    $240 for the kit including a 16K ram expansion and a couple books. Not too shabby.

    /Pedro
  • JonBJonB
    edited July 2014
    He's only soldered in a few diodes so far! I had mine up and running within 3 hours of receiving the kit (back in 1982, when I was a teenager)...

    Nice pictures, took me right back.
  • balfordbalford
    edited July 2014
    Make sure to view the entire gallery ;)
    sj_howlett wrote: »
    Not sure I would have the courage to pay the asking price for a ZX81 kit and then assemble it together myself.

    It is one way of getting the mintiest ZX81 you'll ever see though :)

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    The Spectrum Resuscitation Thread - bringing dead Spectrums back to life
    zx-diagnostics - Fixing ZX Spectrums in the 21st Century (wiki)
    Sinclair FAQ Wiki
  • moggymoggy
    edited July 2014
    Nice kit But I suspect something got swapped as the kits never went beyond 81-82 and this one one sports an issue three ULA dated 1983.
  • balfordbalford
    edited July 2014
    CPU and ROM date codes are in the same ballpark though, and seeing that the ROM is Sinclair branded would indicate some level of originality?

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    The Spectrum Resuscitation Thread - bringing dead Spectrums back to life
    zx-diagnostics - Fixing ZX Spectrums in the 21st Century (wiki)
    Sinclair FAQ Wiki
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