Probably the biggest collection of ZX81 Programs in the world
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2016 7:54 am
Dear friends,
I was the Librarian of a North America Timex/Sinclair Users Club with hundreds of members. When I came to live in Uruguay I brought all those masters recorded in 48 good quality tapes full of more than one thousand such software, to which I added numerous other scientific programs that several people wrote here. That huge collection I don't use anymore but it must not be lost. So I decided to sell it for the equivalent of about one hundred dollars to retro people in Uruguay, one of them a musician and expert in all things having to do with sound, who if they buy it, I hope will digitalize the lot so that it can be used in emulators as well and be made available worldwide. That's the plan. I think it's good news for retro fans and especially ZX81 ones. I'm currently in the process of selling my whole lot of hardware (many ZX81s Spectrums, etc.) as well as QSave filters, HRG and Memocalc add-ons, memory expansions, speech synthetiser, Opus diskette system, microdrive system, EPROM burners, EPROM add-on cards, printers, regular PC keyboards adapted to the ZX81, etc., etc. since I won't have time to go back to work with all this and being currently 72, it's best if it all goes to young retro people that may keep alive the use of this wonderful little machine, that with all the programs, will keep a lot of people fascinated and eager to try it.
So, in the near future you may hear more about this from those local people whom I encouraged to join this forum.
I was the Librarian of a North America Timex/Sinclair Users Club with hundreds of members. When I came to live in Uruguay I brought all those masters recorded in 48 good quality tapes full of more than one thousand such software, to which I added numerous other scientific programs that several people wrote here. That huge collection I don't use anymore but it must not be lost. So I decided to sell it for the equivalent of about one hundred dollars to retro people in Uruguay, one of them a musician and expert in all things having to do with sound, who if they buy it, I hope will digitalize the lot so that it can be used in emulators as well and be made available worldwide. That's the plan. I think it's good news for retro fans and especially ZX81 ones. I'm currently in the process of selling my whole lot of hardware (many ZX81s Spectrums, etc.) as well as QSave filters, HRG and Memocalc add-ons, memory expansions, speech synthetiser, Opus diskette system, microdrive system, EPROM burners, EPROM add-on cards, printers, regular PC keyboards adapted to the ZX81, etc., etc. since I won't have time to go back to work with all this and being currently 72, it's best if it all goes to young retro people that may keep alive the use of this wonderful little machine, that with all the programs, will keep a lot of people fascinated and eager to try it.
So, in the near future you may hear more about this from those local people whom I encouraged to join this forum.