This is a 16k model, there is no expansion connector, and the layout is back-to-front to that of the final machine. The board itself is a standard wire-wrap protoboard with all the major Spectrum components there in some form. The write-up and the video we’ve placed below the break give some detail on the history of the ROM project, the pressures from Sinclair’s legendary cost-cutting, and the decision to ship with an unfinished ROM version meaning that later peripherals had to carry shadow ROMs with updated routines. It came to the museum from Nine Tiles, a local consultancy firm that had been contracted by Sinclair Research in the early 1980s to produce the BASIC ROM that would run on the replacement for their popular ZX81 home microcomputer. The wire-wrapped prototype board they reveal with a flourish from beneath a folded antistatic mat is no ordinary computer, because it is the prototype Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Many are interesting but mundane, but the subject of their latest video is far from that. I`d risk saying probably on auction could get 70-120 quid, but don`t quote me on that :) It`s a rare thing, but will anybody buy it? It`s not Nintendo.just an old Speccy.The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge, UK, receive many donations from which they can enrich their collection and museum displays. The games on the 180 quid ebay one don`t look like worth anything significant and those Buy It Now prices are fairly meaningless. If you`re collector then I suppose so, why not. You can also buy even cheaper, older ZX, like I said above you won`t miss the extra features that much. You can get a +2 and a joystick separately and spend the rest on DivIDE or other flash solution. Should you get it? Not sure, if you want to play ZX games on original hardware then there are cheaper options. There were not that many games utilising the extra ram and you could get the AY chip separately. My rich pal had one - it was fun, but not THAT much better than my simple-peasant Timex.
It has more RAM, AY music chip which is vastly superior and that built in tape deck. ZX Spectrum +2 was one of the upmarket versions of the standard ones (looks like a CPC because Amstrad bought Sinclair out).
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