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Unbuilt ZX81 up for adoption

Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 10:31 pm
by Lardo Boffin
A while back I bought an unbuilt ZX81 kit with the intention of building it. I have not built it and cannot bring myself to do so. :oops:

I have umm’d and arrr’d and eventually gone down the route of building my own from new components (with limited success but as soon as I get a working 6.5 MHz resonator I should be sorted). Anyway I have decided I can’t build this but someone else should.

So it is up for sale at what I paid for it plus about a fiver (got to make a little profit) and p&p (within the UK - elsewhere will be more). This comes to £130. Obviously I can make no guarantees that it will work!

Assuming anyone is interested (it is a lot cheaper than eBay tends to be but is still a chunk of cash) then please pm me.

Only caveat of sale - you must build it! I would also be sad if it ended up on eBay. I could sell it for more on there myself.

Some photos:-
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Re: Unbuild ZX81 up for adoption

Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 10:33 pm
by Lardo Boffin
Some more photos:-
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Re: Unbuilt ZX81 up for adoption

Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 10:44 pm
by Andy Rea
aww man,,,, i would like a kit again since as i did build the one i had and later regretted it because now it is no different to the other zeddies i have,

so i can buy this because i wouldn't build this one.

Regards Andy

P.s. i wouldn't sell it either

Re: Unbuilt ZX81 up for adoption

Posted: Fri May 18, 2018 2:58 am
by gammaray
I PM'd you...

Re: Unbuilt ZX81 up for adoption

Posted: Sun May 20, 2018 8:47 am
by Lardo Boffin
This has gone to Andy. I know I said I wanted it building and andy isn’t going to but as he is working on a repacement ULA I figured I could overlook this fact. :D

Re: Unbuilt ZX81 up for adoption

Posted: Sun May 20, 2018 12:26 pm
by McKlaud
Damn it! :lol: I missed this one :(

Andy: could you do me favour and scan in hi-res both sides of the unsoldered PCB, please?

Re: Unbuilt ZX81 up for adoption

Posted: Sun May 20, 2018 12:57 pm
by mrtinb
McKlaud wrote: Sun May 20, 2018 12:26 pm Damn it! :lol: I missed this one :(

Andy: could you do me favour and scan in hi-res both sides of the unsoldered PCB, please?
I would like that as well for debugging purposes on my broken ZX81.

Re: Unbuilt ZX81 up for adoption

Posted: Sun May 20, 2018 1:00 pm
by mrtinb
mrtinb wrote: Sun May 20, 2018 12:57 pm
McKlaud wrote: Sun May 20, 2018 12:26 pm Damn it! :lol: I missed this one :(

Andy: could you do me favour and scan in hi-res both sides of the unsoldered PCB, please?
I would like that as well for debugging purposes on my broken ZX81.
Hm.. maybe I could use these pictures. (But we can never get enough.) :)

http://k1.spdns.de/Vintage/Sinclair/80/ ... ZX81/PCBs/

Re: Unbuilt ZX81 up for adoption

Posted: Sun May 20, 2018 1:24 pm
by Lardo Boffin
McKlaud wrote: Sun May 20, 2018 12:26 pm Damn it! :lol: I missed this one :(

Andy: could you do me favour and scan in hi-res both sides of the unsoldered PCB, please?
I make that about 13 minutes from first post to new ownership! You have to be fast. :o

Re: Unbuilt ZX81 up for adoption

Posted: Sun May 20, 2018 1:52 pm
by McKlaud
Fast!? I was away from this forum ... anyway your kit will be in good hands :)