Sinclair Spectrum Hardware Index ================================ TOTAL ITEMS = 459 LAST UPDATE = 20th May 99 Maintained by: Paul Jenkinson (PJ@paulj.demon.co.uk) What Is It ? ------------ This list is an attempt to catalogue all of the hardware add-ons that were available for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. The list began life just before May 1997, with the first list being 'published' at the same time as my web page appeared. Hardware for all models of the Spectrum can be included with only joysticks being disregarded. This is an on-going venture that you are encouraged to participate in, and all help is greatly appreciated. Many Spectrum fans will be familiar with many of the entries, such as the DK'tronics keyboard, Interface 1 and Kempston joystick interface. This list will also inform you of the lesser known items such as the Heart Rate Monitor, Adam Adaptor and Logotron Sprite Board. I hope you find this list in some way useful, if only to reminisce about the days when 48k was all you needed ! Before you continue, please take the time to read all of the text, it may just explain things a little better and prevent any complaints there may be ;-) Where can I get the latest Index from ? --------------------------------------- The latest version of the Spectrum Hardware Index, along with features, reviews and pictures, can be obtained from my web page. The Spectrum Hardware Page - www.xsite.ltd.uk/pj/index.html Why No Joysticks ? ------------------ There are a few joysticks mentioned, but only those that are different from the average 'stick & two button' jobs. Sticks like the Trickstick or JE Lazor deserve a mention becaue of the new approach they took. Standard joysticks must number in the hundreds, with so many variations, it would be very hard if not impossible to catalogue. If anyone wants to have a go, then please do. Entries: ------------ Here is a brief description of the index: NAME: Pretty self explanitory really. This holds the name of the product and usualy the manufacturer as well. For example the Fuller Box can be found under 'F' and not 'B' because the advert the entry was taken from advertised 'The Fuller Box'. MANUFACTURER: Another self explanitary one. This will hold the actual maker of the unit. (not the re-seller) Several items have been seen in other companies ads, but to my knowledge, this index only holds the original manufacturers. If you know better... E-mail me. PRICE: The price is including vat (15%) in those days, and is not the 'bargin' price offered in later adverts. It should give a good representation of the price for the newly advertised product. BLURB: Here you find information and/or advertising blurb used in the adverts. Don't blame me for the corny stuff here ! Paragraphs in quotes are direct translations of the actual text appearing in adverts or reviews. SOURCE: This will list the source of the advert, usually a magazine. Obviously there are other adverts in other magazines at other times, but at least this provides a means to validate the entries. NOTE: Any notes or information that may be relevant. Corrections/Additions --------------------- If you have any corrections or additions to this list, please e-mail me at.. pj@paulj.demon.co.uk and include where you attainded the information (magazine, issue, date, page..) Even if you have more information about an already listed item, I would still like to hear from you. THE SPECTRUM HARDWRAE INDEX =========================== --------------------------------------------------------------------------- A --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Abacus Conroller Manufacturer: Abacus Electronics Price: £14.95 Blurb: Single switch selection for Load/Save/Amp. Built-in amplifier and loudspeaker boosts Spectrum sound output. Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: Adam Adaptor Manufacturer: Stephen Adams Price: £9.00 Blurb: Allows you to add any Sinclair compatible RAM pack to your 16k Spectrum. Source: ZX Computing Jan 84 Name: Adam II Adaptor Manufacturer: Stephen Adams Price: £9.00 Blurb: Updated Adam adaptor allowing 2 devices to be used at the same time. (including any ZX81 interface that uses 0-16k section of the ZX81's memory map) Source: ZX Computing July 83 Name: ADC8 (Analogue relay switch interface) Manufacturer: Harley Systems Ltd. Price: 50.00 Blurb: Input sensitive from 0-10 mV to 0-5V. 8 channels. 40,000 readings per second in machine code. Ideal for data capture & consequencing, control and games. Monitor most variables without needing an amplifier. Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: Addpac Joystick Interface Manufacturer: Addpac Electronics Price: £18.99 Blurb: Standard joystick interface(Kempston compatible). Source: ZX Computing Aug/Sep 83 Name: ADS Printer Interface Manufacturer: Advanced Digital Systems Ltd. Price: £34.50 Blurb: Centronics printer interface. Supports all print commands such as LPRINT and LLIST. Loadable software gives standard text prints and hi-res graphic dumps. Source: Your Spectrum issue 2 Name: AGF Amplisound Manufacturer: AGF Price: £24.95 Blurb: Lead switching amplifier that saves having to swap leads when loading/saving. Includes sound amp, speaker and volume control. Source: ZX Computing Jun/Jul 84 Name: AGF Joystick Interface II Manufacturer: AGF Price: 15.95 Blurb: Proven cursor key simulation for maximum software support. Second joystick facility. Through connector for other peripherals. Optional tape available to convert non-cursor games to work on the interface. Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: AGF Programmable Joystick Interface Manufacturer: AGF Price: 33.95 Blurb: Programmable - gives total software support. Rear pass-thru port. Select which keys you want to use, then look up the code on the supplied chart and clip a pair of leads into the interface. Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: AGF Protocol 4 Manufacturer: AGF Price: £29.95 Blurb: Programmable joystick interface. Supports AGF, Sinclair, Cursor, Protek and Kempston. Uses 'custom cards' that slot in and 'program' the interface. Cards can be set up by the user. Source; Your Spectrum issue 11 Name: AGF Ramslot Manufacturer: AGF Price: £9.95 Blurb: Allows the use of 'cartridge' games that are used with the Sinclair Interface 2. Basically AGF's version of Sinclair's Interface 2. Source: Your Spectrum issue 11 Name: AGF Teletext Adaptor Manufacturer: AGF Price: £79.95 Blurb: Receive teltext and telesoftware. Save screens to tape for later viewing. Download software. Includes a through connector. Source: Your Sinclair Apr 86 Name: Alphacom 32 Printer Manufacturer: Dean Electronics Ltd. Price: £99.95 Blurb: A thermal printer that was the only real rival to the Sinclair ZX Printer. Obeys standard Spectrum commands. 120 lines per min. Includes PSU and interface & Through port. Size=7.25in x 3.5in x 3.5in. Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: Amplifier Manufacturer: Magenta Electronics Ltd. Price: 6.98 Blurb: 250mW output via built in speaker. Volume control. Source: Sinclair User Sep 83 Name: AMX Mouse Manufacturer: Advanced Memory Systems Price: £79.95 Blurb: Three button mouse, interface and software. Usually supplied with, or as part of OCP Art Studio. Source: Your Sinclair Apr 86 Name: Anamouse Manufacturer: Nidd Valley Price: £34.95 (interface £14.95) Blurb: Sister mouse to the Digimouse, but uses analogue input. Has three programmable buttons and Z axis. Requires the interface to work. Source: PCW Feb 86 Name: Astracom AC1000 Manufacturer: Astracom Price: £166.75 Blurb: Modem. Supports 300/300, 1200/75 and 1200/1200. Auto-scan, auto-answer and auto-dial. Source: Sinclair User Dec 86 Name: AY Interface Manufacturer: Stavi Price: £ unknown Blurb: 128k sound (in stereo) on the 48k machines. Source: Komputer Magazine (Polish) 1986 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- B --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Basicare Clock Manufacturer: Basicare Micro Systems Price: £45.00 Blurb: Battery backed, real time clock/calander for the Basicare system. Uses the Basic variable t$ to store the time/date and is updated every 50th of a second. Source: Your Spectrum 84 Name: Basicare Drom (2k) Manufacturer: Basicare Micro Systems Price: £39.50 Blurb: Battery backed Non-volatile memory for storing programs quickly. Can also be used for autostart purposes, starting your Spectrum with routines to give special fonts, time etc.. For use with Basicare system. Source: Sinclair User Aug 83 Name: Basicare Link A Manufacturer: Basicare Micro Systems Price: £40.00 Blurb: Eight channel analouge input module for the Basicare system. Source: Your Spectrum 84 Name: Basicare MiniMap Manufacturer: Basicare Micro Systems Price: £35.95 Blurb: Memory mapping/paging module for the Basicare system. Source: Sinclair User Aug 83 Name: Basicare Pericon A Manufacturer: Basicare Micro Systems Price: £27.90 Blurb: General purpose, user-programmable device providing 24 lines of TTL input/output for the Basicare system. Source: Sinclair User Aug 83 Name: Basicare Pericon B Manufacturer: Basicare Micro Systems Price: £33.75 Blurb: Heavey duty, buffered version of the Pericon A for the Basicare system. Source: Sinclair User Aug 83 Name: Basicare Pericon C Manufacturer: Basicare Micro Systems Price: £41.75 Blurb: Centronics printer interface for the Basicare system. Supplied software allows you to create your own machine code driver. Source: Sinclair User Aug 83 Name: Basicare Persona SP Manufacturer: Basicare Micro Systems Price: £45.00 Blurb: Initial interface for the Basicare 'Tower Of Power'. Once the interface was connected, you could then add any of the other Basicare modules. Buffered 64-way bus. Source: Sinclair User Aug 83 Name: Basicare RAM 08 Manufacturer: Basicare Micro Systems Price: £24.50 Blurb: 8k Ram module for the Basicare system. Source: Your Sinclair 84 Name: Basicare RAM 16 Manufacturer: Basicare Micro Systems Price: £26.75 Blurb: 16k Ram module for the Basicare system. Source: Sinclair User Aug 83 Name: Basicare RAM 64 Manufacturer: Basicare Micro Systems Price: £76.25 Blurb: 64k Ram module for the Basicare system. Source: Sinclair User Aug 83 Name: Basicare Sonus Manufacturer: Basicare Micro Systems Price: £30.15 Blurb: 3 voice Sound synthesiser for the Basicare system. Source: Sinclair User Aug 83 Name: Basicare Toolkit Manufacturer: Basicare Micro Systems Price: £22.20 Blurb: Takes up to 8k of Eproms/Roms Can be used to store your own programs or utils, ready to use at any time. Source: Sinclair User Aug 83 Name: Battpack Manufacturer: Adaptors & Eliminators Ltd Price: £13.95 Blurb: Protect your programs with this rechargeable, Ni-Cad battery pack and transient suppressor. Keeps the power at 9v, even if the mains goes off. Is able to run your Spectrum for 30 minutes. Source: ZX Computing Oct/Nov 83 Name: BEEP Amp Manufacturer: Hypnotech Price: £23.95 Blurb: Spectrum amplifier. 8 watt amp with 10 watt woofer. Source: ZX Computing Aug/Sep 83 Name: Beta 128 Disk Interface Manufacturer: Technology Research Ltd. Price: £69.95 Blurb: Disk controller with snapshot button to save your programs to disk. Supports both 3.5 and 5.25" drives giving up to 2mb storage. Source: Your Sinclair Jan 87 Name: Beta + Interface Manufacturer: Technology Research Ltd. Price: £249.75 (with disk drive) Blurb: Disk interface that supports single or double density drives. Operating system on Eprom. Supports 3.5 or 5.25" drives. Runs up to 4 drives. Source: Sinclair User Jan 85 Name: Big Ears Manufacturer: William Stuart Systems Price: £49.00 Blurb: Speech regognition system. large box and mic, as seen on BBC tv 'computer programme'. Source: ZX Computing Aug/Sep 83 Name: Bloprom Manufacturer: Camel Products Price: £89.95 Blurb: Eprom programmer. Supports 2516,2716/32/32a/ 64/64a/28/128a, intel 74a/128a. Source: Sinclair User Jan 85 Name: Byte Box 1 Manufacturer: Micha Design Price: £97.75 Blurb: Multi input/output interface. Includes; 4 relays, 1 ADC up to 5 channels, 1 DAC (adjustable) 1 Input port, 1 Output port, 1 Joystick port. All in one box. Source: Sinclair User Dec 83 Name: Byte Box 2 Manufacturer: Micha Design Price: £137.50 Blurb: Multi input/output interface. Includes; 8 Relays, 2 ADC's up to 10 channels, 1 DAC (adjustable) 2 Input ports, 2 Output ports, 2 Joystick ports. All in one box. Source: Sinclair User Dec 83 Name: Byte Drive 500 Manufacturer: ITL & Tyrell Systems Price: £305.50 Blurb: Mass storage system with interface and drive units. 440k storage via 3inch single sided, double density drive. 220k in 11 sectors per side. Access time of arouns 3ms. Interface built into cable includes ULA, 16k ROM and controller chip. Source: ZX Computing Aug/Sep 85 Note: They planned a double sided version of this unit, anyone know if it ever appeared ? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- C --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Cambridge Colt Joystick Interface Manufacturer: Cambridge Computing Price: £9.95 Blurb: Standard Kempston compatible joystick interface. Source: Sinclair User Dec 84 Name: Cambridge Extender Bar Manufacturer: Cambridge Computing Price: £4.95 Blurb: Extender bar (presumably at the back of the Spectrum), that incorporates a reset button. Source: Sinclair User Dec 84 Name: Cambridge Intelligent Joystick Manufacturer: Cambridge Computing Price: £7.00 Blurb: At last a joystick that works ! Cambridge Computing brings you the first programmable joystick at a price you can afford. (requires interface & tape) Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: Cambridge Intelligent Interface Manufacturer: Cambridge Computing Price: £24.00 Blurb: Joystick interface.(includes tape) 1k on board memory. Own rear edge connector for printers. Compatible with all standard joysticks. Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: Cambridge Intelligent Printer Interface (std.) Manufacturer: Cambridge Computing Price: £39.95 Blurb: Centonics printer interface. Compatible with all standard print commands. Driver software stored in ROM. Source: Sinclair User Dec 84 Name: Cambridge Intelligent Printer Interface (advanced) Manufacturer: Cambridge Computing Price: £49.95 Blurb: Includes all features of the standard version + Different sized prints. Grey scale. Downloadable fonts. Source: Sinclair User Dec 84 Name: CCI Lightpen Manufacturer: Custom Cable International Price: £15.00 Blurb: Light pen. Software allows screens to be stored and recalled to create animations. Source: Sinclair User Aug 84 Name: CCI Programmable Joystick Interface Manufacturer: Custom Cable International Price: £15.00 Blurb: Programmable via a short Basic program that allows keys to be mapped to the joystick movements. Source: Sinclair User Aug 84 Name: Celina Elima-Tapeloader Manufacturer: Celina Ltd. Price: £14.99 Blurb: Eliminate tape loading errors ! Device that connected between the cassette recorder and the Spectrum to remove unwanted noise for the signal. Source: Your Spectrum issue 15. June 85 Name: Celina Loudmouth Manufacturer: Celina Ltd. Price: £12.99 Blurb: Beep amp for the Speccy. Source: Your Spectrum issue 15. June 85 Name: Centronics Interface Manufacturer: Advanced Digital Systems Price: £34.50 Blurb: Centronics printer interface.Supports all printer commands from BASIC. Source: ZX Computing Aug/Sep 83 Name: Challenge Sprint Manufacturer: Challenge Research Price: £64.95 Blurb: Looks like a standard cassette recorder, but plugs into the user port and gives up to 4 times load/save speed. Uses normal cassette tapes and is fully compatible with all existing software. Average 48k program loads in 75 seconds. Also includes a replacement ROM with faster load/ save routines. It later became apparent that newer 'turbo-loader' software such as the older Ultimate titles, were not compatible. (Feb 85) Source: Sinclair User August 84 and 16/48 mag (issue 12) Name: Challenge Sprint Mk II Manufacturer: Macway Ltd Price: £69.95 Blurb: Same as the original Sprint but with Interface 1 compatibility. Source: Ruggiero Antonio - Sinclair User Dec 85 Name: Chatterbox Manufacturer: William Stuart Systems Price: £49.00 Blurb: Speech synthesis interface. Genuine phonetic synthesis. Unlimited vocabulary. Self contained speaker/amp. Source: ZX Computing Aug/Sep 83 Name: Chatterbox II Manufacturer: William Stuart Systems Price: £39.00 Blurb: "It can say anything. Genuine phoneme synthesis - not just recorded speech - hense unlimited vocabulary. Programmable pitch for more natural intonation. Solid tone cabinet for quality sound. Internal BEEP music amplifier. Expansion socket for 'Big Ears' voice recognition system." Source: Your Computer March 85 Name: Cheetah 32k Ram Pack Manufacturer: Cheetah Marketing Ltd. Price: £39.95 Blurb: A ram upgrade to 48k. "Simply plugs into the rear connector and gives full 48k." Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: Cheetah 68FX1 Keyboard. Manufacturer: Cheetah Marketing Price: £59.95 Blurb: 65 key full travel keyboard with single shift keys and full length space bar. 13 single key functions. True shift-lock. Space for Interface 1 inside. Source: Sinclair User Dec 84 Note: This keyboard is sold by Cheetah, made by London Microtech ltd. and marketed by Fox Electronics. Name: Cheetah Defender Light Gun Manufacturer: Cheetah Marketing Ltd. Price: £24.95 Blurb: Now you can fire a plastic gun at the telly ! Includes several games like Bronx Street Cop and Billy the Kid. Source: Your Sinclair Nov 89 Name: Cheetah Hi-Stak Feet Manufacturer: Cheetah Marketing Ltd. Price: £2.99 Blurb: Angled plastic feet for your Spectrum. Source: ZX Computing Aug/Sep 85 Note: A similar device by the same name was produced by a company called Warp Factor Eight of Herts. and advertised in Sinclair User Feb 83. Name: Cheetah Megasound Manufacturer: Cheetah Marketing Ltd. Price: £10.95 Blurb: Amplifies your sound via the TV speaker. Source: ZX Computing Aug/Sep 85 Name: Cheetah Midi Interface Manufacturer: Cheetah Marketing Ltd. Price: £49.95 Blurb: Midi in/out/through. Midi delay. Control any midi instrument. Forward & reverse sequence playback. Source: Your Sinclair Jan 87 Name: Cheetah RAT Manufacturer: Cheetah Marketing ltd. Price: £29.95 Blurb: Remote Action Transmitter. Infra red game pad that can be used for games. Kempston compatible. Source: ZX Computing Aug/Sep 85 Name: Cheetah Sound Sampler Manufactyrer: Cheetah Marketing Price: £44.95 Blurb: Sound sampler unit with microphone. Allows mixing of samples, forward or reverse, edit, reverb and echo effects. 17.5Khz bandwidth. Source: ZX Computing October 86 Name: Cheetah Specdrum Manufacturer: Cheetah Marketing Ltd. Price: £29.95 Blurb: Digital drum system for your Spectrum. 8 digital drum sounds. True digital drum machine. Extra sounds can be loaded from tape. Real time or on-screen programming. Store over 1000 rythms. Source: Your Sinclair Jan 87 Name: Cheetah Sweet Talker Manufacturer: Cheetah Marketing Ltd. Price: £29.75 Blurb: Make your Spectrum talk ! A speech interface based on an allophone system. Source: Sinclair User May 84 Name: Chroma 1 Monitor Manufacturer: Chromagraphica Price: £249.95 (extra £17.50 for sound)(£28.95 for Speccy converter) Blurb: High res 14" colour monitor (585x895) Source: Sinclair User June 86 Name: Clive Drive, The Manufacturer: Ergo Systems Ltd. Price: £59.95 Blurb: Disk interface with drive and printer port. Responds to all standard drive commands. Uses double sided drive allowing 50k per side (100k per disk). Average load time 13 seconds. Source: Crash 59. December 1988 Note: This device was later sold by Video Vault. (Nov 89) Who added a back-up button to it. Name: Clive Printer, The Manufacturer: Ergo Systems Ltd. Price: £40 (approx) Blurb: 80 character thermal printer. Dot addressable graphics. Inverse option. Expanded print option (160 chars). Uni or Bi directional. Source: Crash 59. December 1988. Note: This was a option when buying the Clive Drive, and could not be used without it. Name: Co-Der Manufacturer: Jiles Electronics Price: £99.95 Blurb: Allows tape to tape copying by connecting two recorders to the unit. Source: Sinclair User Aug 83 Name: Cobra RS232 Interface Manufacturer: Cobra Technology Ltd Price: £26.85 Blurb: Standard RS232 interface. Source: ZX Computing Apr/May 83 Name: Cole RS232 Manufacturer: Cole Computing Price: £12.00 Blurb: 110/300 baud RS232 output port. Source: Sinclair User Feb 83 Name: Comcon Programmable Joystick Interface Manufacturer: Frel Ltd. Price: £17.95 Blurb: Programmable joystick interface for the Spectrum. Source: Crash 4 (may 84) Name: Comcon Twin Manufacturer: Frel Ltd. Price: £22.95 Blurb: Twin version of the Comcon Programmable, having two ports. Source: Sinclair User Jun 86 Name: Computilt Stand Manufacturer: Computer Add-ons Price: £4.50 Blurb: Designed to tilt your Spectrum to a better working position. Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: Cool-It Unit Manufacturer: Kelwood Computer Cases Price: £11.85 Blurb: Takes the heat out of your Spectrum. Lets your machine run cooler. Source: ZX Computing Feb/Mar 84 Name: CP48 Manufacturer: Citadel Products Price: £23.95 Blurb: Internal ram upgrade for your Spectrum. Gives 48k. Source: ZX Computing Jun/Jul 83 Name: Cramic-SP Manufacturer: Camel Products Price: £89.95 Blurb: Software paged 16k non-volatile Ram. Store programs quickly and simply. Source: Sinclair User Jan 85 Name: Crescent 128 Quick Disk Manufacturer: Servicon Dynamics Ltd. Price: £117.44 (drive) £152.69 (interface) Blurb: Another alternative to the microdrive claiming upto 20 times the speed. Stores 128k of data and can read 65k in 4-8 seconds. Has RS232 port and RGB port. Allows only 2 drives to be attached to the interface. An enhanced version (256i) could store 256k and cost £229.90 Source: Your Spectrum issue 15 June 85 Name: Crescent 401 + 2000DFS Manufacturer: Servicon Dynamics Ltd. Price: £129.95 (£199.95 with DFS os) Blurb: Disk interface supporting 3" and 5.25" drives. DFS features upto 78 files (200k). Extended Basic commands. True random access. Uses 8k of Ram. Source: Sinclair User Feb 85 Name: Currah MicroSlot Manufacturer: Currah Computer Components Price: £14.95 Blurb: Splits your expansiion bus into two allowing two peripherals to be fitted at once. Source: Your Spectrum issue 11 Name: Currah MicroSource Manufacturer: Currah Computer Components Price: £44.50 Blurb: FORTH and Assembler cartridge with debug. Source: Your Spectrum issue 11 Name: Currah MicroSpeech Unit Manufacturer: Currah Computer Components Price: £29.95 Blurb: Speech synthesis box using the SP0256-AL2 speech processor. Outputs sound via the TV. Source: Sinclair User Dec 83 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- D --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Data Recorder Manufacturer: Meow Micros Price: £24.95 Blurb: Fully compatable (or your money back) cassette recorder for your Spectrum. Source: ZX Computing Arp/May 84 Name: Datafax Disk System Manufacturer: Datafax Price: £245.00 Burb: Interface supports 3 and 5.25 drives. up to 200k storage. External DOS uses 8k of memory. Built-in reset button. Source: Your Spectrum issue 8 Note: This interface was used in the Statacom Disk System. Name: Datapen Manufacturer: Datapen Microtechnology Ltd. Price: £29.00 Blurb: Lightpen system. Draw direct to screen. Source: Your Spectrum issue 17 Name: DataSpectrum Manufacturer: Miracle Technology Price: £47.09 Blurb: Interface to connect a modem to your Spectrum. Source: Your Spectrum issue 18 Name: Data Director Manufacturer: Hirst Electronics Price: £29.95 Blurb: Transforms the task of loading and saving from a chore to a delight. Small external box between Speccy and cassette recorder. Source: Your Spectrum issue 18 Name: Datamate Manufacturer: Procomm Systems Price: £??? (no price.. just an advert !) Blurb: Cure Load/Save problems with this easy to use unit. Also includes a 'beep' ampliphier. Source: ZX Computing Aug/Sep 83 Name: Datel 3 Channel Sound Synthesiser Manufacturer: Datel Electronics Price: £19.99 Blurb: 3 channel sound interface. Source: Your Sinclair - Sep 89 Name: Datel Demagnetiser Manufacturer: Datel Electronics Price: £9.99 Blurb: Loading problems ? Your tape heads may need demagnetising. Its a cleaner and demagnetiser built into a cassette. Source: Your Sinclair Aug 88 Name: Datel Digital Sound Manufacturer: Datel Electronics Price: £49.99 Blurb: Digital sampling technology on your Spectrum. 8bit sampling and playback of any sound. Source: Your Spectrum issue 17 Name: Datel Games Ace Manufacturer: Datel Electronics Price: £10.99 Blurb: Allows any 9 pin joystick to be used with the Spectrum. Puts sound through TV speaker. Source: Sinclair User Dec 88 Name: Datel Genius Mouse Manufacturer: Datel Electronics Price: 49.99 Blurb: High resolution, two button mouse. Complete with interface and OCP Art Studio software. Source: Your Sinclair Nov 89 Name: Datel Inter Printer Manufacturer: Datel Electronics Price: £34.99 Blurb: Centronics printer interface. Source: Crash 11 (Dec 84) Name: Datel Lightwriter Manufacturer: Datel Electronics Price: £16.99 Blurb: Create superb graphics with this lightpen. Source: Your Spectrum issue 17 Name: Datel Ramprint Manufacturer: Datel Electronics Price: £34.99 Blurb: The ultimate printer interface with built-in word processor(RamWrite). Works with any standard centronics printers. Source: Your Sinclair Nov 89 Name: Datel Robotarm Manufacturer: Datel Electronics Price: £49.99 Blurb: Full function 5 axis movement. Includes standard grip jaw, magnetic finger, Shovel attachment and stabilising legs. Source: Sinclair User Dec 88 Name: Datel Robo Tek Manufacturer: Datel Electronics Price: £29.99 Blurb: Robotics and model controller. Source: Crash 11 (dec 84) Name: Datel Snapshot Manufacturer: Datel Electronics Price: £29.99 Blurb: Transfer all your programs to microdrive or disk at the touch of a button. Datel's version of the Multiface. Source: Your Sinclair Oct 86 Note: Datel later launched the Snapshot 2. Name: Datel Switchable Joystick Interface Manufacturer: Datel Electronics Price: £19.99 Blurb: Switches between Kempston, cursor and Interface 2 types. Source: Your Spectrum issue 17 Name: Datel Turbo Ace Manufacturer: Datel Electronics Price: £22.99 Blurb: Switchable joystick interface with sound booster. Source: Crash 11 (Dec 84) Name: Datel Vox Box Manufacturer: Datel Electronics Price: £29.99 Blurb: Speech synthesizer with built in joystick interface. Uses allophone system. Sound output via TV speaker. Source: Sinclair User May 84 Name: DCP Interpack 1 Manufacturer: DCP Price: £43.43 Blurb: Part of the DCP Control System. The system consists of several packs and additions that can be linked together to form a very powerful external control unit for the likes of servo's, robots etc... This module contains analogue and digital inputs. An 8bit TTL input and an 8bit TTL output port. Source: Sinclair User Dec 86 Name: DCP Interpack 2 Manufacturer: DCP Price: £34.74 Blurb; Part of the DCP Control System. This module contains an eight-switch contact for digital inputs, six SPDT relays and 15way expansion bus. Source: Sinclair User Dec 86 Name: DCP Interpack 3 Manufacturer: DCP Price: £43.43 Blurb: The stepper motor control. Can drive up to 3 12v two-phase motors. Also has eight buffered switch contacts. Source: Sinclair User Dec 86 Name: DCP Interpack ADC Pack Manufacturer: DCP Price: £21.70 Blurb: Fast analogue to digital converter. Source: Sinclair User Dec 86 Name: DCP Interpack DAC Pack Manufacturer: DCP Price: £21.70 Blurb: Fast digital to analogue converter. Source: Sinclair User Dec 86 Name: DCP Interpack Intercard Manufacturer: DCP Price: £13.00 Blurb: Used to connect Interpacks together. Source: Sinclair User Dec 86 Name: DCP Interpack Invertabus Manufacturer: DCP Price: £4.30 Blurb: Connects two ADC or DAC packs together. Source: Sinclair User Dec 86 Name: DCP Interpack Powerbus Manufacturer: DCP Price: £17.35 Blurb: Boosts power when several Interpacks are used together. Source: Sinclair User Dec 86 Name: Delta 128 Manufacturer: Technology Research Ltd. Price: £199.50 Blurb: Same as the Delta Disk Interface, but with the added 128k memory. Source: Sinclair User June 86 Name: Delta Disk Interface Manufacurer: Technology Research Ltd. Price: £129.50 Blurb: Disk interface that supports 3.5 and 5.25 drives. Built-in centronics port. Built-in memory option, allows up to 128k to be added. Source: Sinclair User June 86 Name: Delta-Ram Kit Manufacturer: Delta Research Ltd. Price: £33.00(issue 1). £26.00 (issue 2) Blurb: Internal Ram upgrade for 16K machines. Easy to install. Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: Desktop Console Manufacturer: Computerlock Price: £22.00 Blurb: TV/Monitor stand that incooparates your Spectrum, PSU and tape. Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: Digimouse Manufacturer: Nidd Valley Price: £34.95 (interface £14.95) Blurb: Mouse that uses digital pulse output for more accurate movement. Requires one of two interfaces to work, The basic low-cost version (£14.95) or the professional version incorporating a Centronics port and direct link to the Nidd Valley programmable keypad. (£34.95) Source: PCW Feb 86 Name: Digit Manufacturer: Frel Ltd. Price: £9.50 Blurb: Keyboard enhancer for Spectrum Plus. Replaces the rubber membrane with a tactile feeling alternative. Source: Sinclair User June 86 Name: Disciple Interface Manufacturer: Rockford Products (designed by Miles Gordon Technology) Price: £86.59 Blurb: Disk interface allows up to 16mb of storage on 2 drives. Loads full 48k program in 3.5 seconds. Compatible with any standard drive, double or single density. Snapshot button to save your programs to disk. Printer interface. Dual joystick ports. (Sinclair/Kempston). Networking feature to allow the Disciple to act as file server for upto 64 other Spectrums. Source: Your Sinclair Jan 87 Name: DK'tronics 3 Channel Sound Synthesiser Manufacturer: DK'tronics Price: £29.95 Blurb: Incorporates a Beep amplifier and 3 channel sound synthesiser. "The 3 channel sound synthesiser adds a totally new dimension to sound on your Spectrum. It allows you to program your own music with harmonies, explosions, zaps, chimes, whistles and an infinite range of other sounds over 8 octaves. Based on the popular AY-3-8912 sound chip it gives you complete control (from Basic or M/C) over 3 channels of tone/or white noise, plus envelope and volume control. It comes with its own pod mounted 4inch speaker." Source: Sinclair User Dec 84 Name: DK'Tronics Beep Audio Amp Manufacturer: DK'tronics Price: £14.95 Blurb: Amplifier interface with pod mounted 4inch speaker and volume control. Looks much like the 3 Channel Sound, but doesn't have the sound chip. Source: Sinclair User August 84 Name: DK'tronics Dual Port Manufacturer: DK'tronics Price: £13.00 Blurb: Dual port joystick interface. "The first port simulates 6,7,8,9 & 0 keys. The second port simulates IN(31) command" - Kempston. Source: Your Computer March 85 Name: DK'tronics Games Controller Manufacturer: DK'tronics Price: £12.95 Blurb: Standard joystick interface (Kempston) with the added feature of a 'slowdown' control for games that are just too hard for you. Source: Your Computer May 85 Name: DK'tronics Joystick & Interface Manufacturer: DK'tronics Price: £22.95 Blurb: Winning is within your grasp ! Cursor & Kempston compatible. Source: Sinclair User Dec 83 Name: DK'tronics Keyboard Manufacturer: DK'tronics Price: £45.00 Blurb: "The DK Microdrive compatible keyboard is the best selling keyboard in the world and is used by 10% of all Spectrum users. It is Microdrive compatible and offers more key functions than any other keyboard in its price range. The stepped keys and space bar make it even easier to use. It is constructed from high density black ABS and has 52 keys and a full width space bar. A seperate numeric keypad of 12 red keys, including a single entry 'delete' plus single entry decimal point, facilitate fast data entry." Source: Sinclair User Dec 83 Name: DK'tronics Light Pen Manufacturer: DK'tronics Price: £19.95 Blurb: Draw in high resolution on your TV screen. "This highly succesful Light Pen fits neatly onto the rear of the computer. The operating software now runs faster and supports 16 pre-defined instructions. You can change all the colours (border, paper, ink), draw circles, arcs, boxes, lines and insert text onto the screen. There are also features to draw freehand and animate on the 48k Spectrum, you can retain and animate 5 screens. You can also use the machine code on its own in your own programs." Source: Sinclair User Dec 83 Name: DK'tronics Parallel Centronics Interface Manufacturer: DK'tronics Price: £39.95 Blurb: Allows any printer with a centronics interface to be connected to you Spectrum. Uses standard print commands. Source: Sinclair User March 85 Name: DK'tronics Programmable Joystick Interface Manufacturer: DK'tronics Price: £22.95 Blurb: "Now you can run any software from any supplier with the DK'tronics fully programmable joystick interface. It comes complete with machine code software and can be programmed in seconds to give full 8 directional joystick movements." Source: Sinclair User March 85 Name: DK'tronics Spectra-Sound Manufacturer: DK'tronics Price: £9.95 Blurb: Fully amplied sound via your TV. Fits inside your Spectrum. Source: Sinclair User Dec 83 Name: DK'tronics Speech Synthesiser Manufacturer: DK'tronics Price: £24.95 Blurb: Speech synthesiser using the SLO/256 chip. Source: Your Computer March 85 Name: Doodler Lightpen Manufacturer: F E Electronics Price: £29.90 Blurb: Create electronic art on your TV screen. Source: Your Sinclair issue 1 Jan 86 Name: Downsway Programable Joystick Interface Manufacturer: Downsway Electronics Price: £22.95 Blurb: Simply move the stick and press the appropriate key to program. Source: ZX Computing Feb/Mar 84 Name: Doubler Mk.II Manufacturer: Evesham Micro Centre Price: £14.95 Blurb: Back up any program on the Spectrum. Requires 2 tape decks. Source: ZX Computing Aug/Sep 85 Name: Dove Disk Drive Interface Manufacturer: Dove Microtronix Ltd. Price: £ 249.00 Blurb: None available. SourcE: Sinclair User Oct 84 Name: Dove Joystick Interface Manufacturer: Dove Microtronix Ltd Price: £9.95 Blurb: Standard joystick interface. Kempston compatible. Source: Sinclair User Oct 84 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- E --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: ECB Board Manufacturer: DIY project in Magazine c't Price: n/a Blurb: PCB design for centronics port. Source: Magazine c't 1986 (supplied by Peter Sieg) Name: Echo Amplifier Manufacturer: HCCS (Home and Continental Computer Services Ltd.) Price: £25.95 Blurb: 5 Watt sound amp with a 6inch speaker. Volume & tone controls. Source: Your Sinclair Nov 86 Name: Echo Keyboard Manufacturer: HCCS Price: £39.95 Blurb: Music keyboard (as in piano). Software to create your own sounds. Source: Your Sinclair Nov 86 Name: Electrotech Joystick Programmer Manufacturer: Electrotech Price: £43.70 Blurb: Programmable joystick interface and large black 'controller' consisting of three buttons. 2k ram board stores key-press info & feed the interface. Source: Sinclair User Aug 97 Name: Eider Systems Pro Keyboard Manufacturer: Eidersoft Price: £76.38 Blurb: 67 full travel keys. on/off switch. Reset button. LED indicators. Factory fitted. Source: Your Spectrum issue 11 Name: Eider Switch Manufacturer: Eidersoft Price: £4.90 Blurb: On/off switch. Saves wear & tear. Source: Your Spectrum issue 11 Name: Enterprise 1 Manufacturer: Kirk Automation Ltd Price: £99.95(modem only) £149.95(full kit) Blurb: The modem supports 300/300 and 1200/75. The kit includes interface, leads, viewdata software and terminal software. Source: Sinclair User Dec 86 Name: Enterprise 2 Manufacturer: Kirk Automation Ltd. Price: £249.95 (modem only) Blurb: Sam features as the Enterprise 1 but also has 1200/1200. No mention of a pack version as with the Enterprise 1. Source: Sinclair User Dec 86. Name: EPROM Board Manufacturer: Eprom Services Price: £19.00 Blurb: Eprom board that takes 8 or 2k EPROMS. Source: ZX Computing Aug/Sep 83 Name: Eprom Programmer Manufacturer: Eprom Services Price: £54.95 Blurb: Eprom programmer that can handle intel eproms. Source: Your Spectrum issue 2 Name: Eprom Services 32-way Port Manufacturer: Eprom Services Price: £15 Blurb: 32-way I/O port based on the 8255 chip. It uses a standard 24 line port with one output fed into eight flip-flops to gain the extra lines. These extra lines are four pairs which can only be oposite each other. (if four are 0, then the other four must be 1). This port requires a motherboard for connection costing £24.00 Source: Sinclair User Apr 83 Name: Eureka Monitor Manufacturer: Domark Price: under £250 (that's what the ad said !) Blurb: Medium res monitor with sound output. Screen zoom facility. Source: Your Sinclair May 86 Name: Eve Adaptor Manufacturer: Stephen Adams Price: £9.00 Blurb: Allows the Spectrum 48k to use the peripherals of the ZX81 as long as the devices operate in the 0-16k section of the ZX81's memoery map. Source: ZX Computing Aug/Sep 83 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- F --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: FDC-1 Mk2 Manufacturer: Technology Research Ltd. Price: £85.00 interface, £185.00 disk drive Blurb: Disk opperating system in ROM. 100k capacity. Source: ZX Computing Apr/May 84 Name: FDD 3000 Manufacturer: Timex Price: ?? Blurb: Add on unit containing alot of stuff ! 2 3" drive slots, built-in PSU, 2 RS232 ports, 64k Ram. Documentation supplied also mentions ULS'a and a Z80, along with built-in OS called TOS (Timex Operating System). Uses Microdrive-type syntax and can also be used to run CP/M. Other versions available from Unipolbrit and Stavi. Source: ?? Name: FDS Executive Manufacturer: Nordic Keyboards UK Price: £59.95 Blurb: High quality keyboard. Full travel 51 keys with single key input for DELETE, Extended mode, full stop and comma. Source: Sinclair User Feb 85 Note: Nordic Keyboards were formed when Fuller ceased trading. They took over the Fuller range and extended it. Hense the use of the FDS name. Name: Feedback Eliminating Device (FED) Manufacturer: Brainwaves Price: £7.50 Blurb: "This is a small switching unit connected between your computer and cassette recorder, which isolates the redundant lead when either saving or loading." Source: Sinclair User - Feb 83 Name: Fiz Disk Interface Manufacturer: Interactive Components Ltd. Price: £ ? Blurb: Interface and 5.25" drive. Little is known about this, any help appreciated. Source: Andy Davis Name: Force Astro Workstation Manufactuere: Force Astro Ltd Price: £19.95 (£45.00 with optional keyboard) Blurb: "The new Force Astro workstation is ergonomically designed to accomodate your Spectrum, TV, recorder, PSU, Interface 1 and most other periperals, in a robust, lightweight, attractive self-contained unit." Includes reset switch. Also has space for an optional full travel keyboard. Source: Personal Computer Games October 84 Name: Forth Manufacturer: David Husband Price: £69.32 Blurb: Forth on ROM cartridge. The cartridge switches out the Spectrum BASIC ROM and replaces it with its own 12k ROM which includes FORTH, Z80 assembler and terminal software. The card also has a RS232 port (via 8251 chip), 24bit parallel (via 8255 chip). Source: ZX Computing Dec/Jan 84 Name: Fox Programmable Joystick Interface Manufacturer: Fox Electronics Ltd. Price: £20.99 Blurb: Total compatibility with all games. Source: Sinclair User May 84 Name: Fox Upgrade Kit (16-48k) Manufacturer: Fox Electronics Price: £21.00 (issue 2 machines only) Blurb: High quality kit at a low price. Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: Flight Deck Joystick. Manufacturer: EEC Ltd. Price: £9.95 Blurb: At last, a joytisck that needs no interface. Sits on top of the Spectrum over the cursor keys. Opperates all the cursor keys. Source: Sinclair User May 84 Name: Floyd 40 Manufacturer: Floyd Price: £79.95 Blurb: Printer. 32 or 40 character printing. Inverse. Double width/height. Firmware software. Source: Your Spectrum issue 11 Name: Friendly Face Manufacturer: Monitor Price: £12.95 Blurb: Tape transfer cartridge for Microdrive. Source: Your Spectrum issue 8 Name: Fuller Box Manufacturer: Fuller Micro Systems Price: £29.95 Blurb: The sound system for the Spectrum. Bult-in audio amp. Based on the GI-AY-3-8912 sound chip. Allows you to program a vast range of sounds for your Spectrum. 3 channels. Includes joystick port. Through ports. Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: Fuller Centronics Interface Manufacturer: Fuller Micro Systems Price: £39.95 Blurb: Standard centronics printer interface. Source: ZX Computing Aug/Sep 83 Name: Fuller Dual Interface Manufacturer: Fuller Micro Systems Price: £49.95 Blurb: Centronics and RS232 interface in one unit. Source: ZX Computing Aug/Sep 83 Name: Fuller FDS Desktop System. Manufacturer: Fuller Micro Systems Price: £39.95 Blurb: Elegant system designed for professional use. Includes full travel keyboard based on the FD42. Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: Fuller FD42 Keyboard Manufacturer: Fuller Micro Systems. Price: 29.95 Blurb: 42 key full travel keyboard. No soldering required. Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: Fuller Master Unit Manufacturer: Fuller Micro Systems Price: £54.95 Blurb: Contains both the Fuller Unit and Orator in the same box. Source: ZX Computing Aug/Sep 83 Name: Fuller Orator - Speech Synthesis Manufacturer: Fuller Micro Systems. Price: £39.95 Blurb: Uses allophone system to produce speech. Based on the GI-SP0256 AL voice chip. Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: Fuller RS232 Interface Manufacturer: Fuller Micro Systems Price: £34.95 Blurb: Rom based software. Source: ZX Computing Aug/Sep 83 Name: Fuller Soundstick Manufacturer: Fuller Micro Systems Price: £19.95 Blurb: Sound amplifier and standard joystick interface. Source: Sinclair User Dec 84 Note: When fuller went into receivership and were bought out by Nordic, this product was continued and advertised as the Nordic Soundstick. (SU Jan 85) Name: Furguson MA20 Monitor Interface Manufacturer: Furguson Price: £? Blurb: Interface to allow monitors to be attached to your Spectrum. (possibly only the Furguson MC01TV/Monitor) Picture adjust and sound via tv/mon. Source: ZX Computing August 85 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- G --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Games Board Manufacturer: Marvic Merketing Price: £9.95 Blurb: Plastic casing that fits over the Spectrum keyboard. Holes over the keys are then filled by small 'pegs' that act as keys. Using only the keys set within games, allows for more accurate key presses. Source: Sinclair User Jan 85 Name: Gamestar Cable Box Manufacturer: Cable Interactive Services Price: £ ??? Blurb: Small box about the same size as a VTX, that plugs into the cable network and allows you to download software. Not much info on either the box, or the service ?? News article in Crash 4 (May 84) Source: Crash issue 4 (May 84) Name: Genesis P101 Manufacturer: Powertran Cybernetics Price: £1750.00 Blurb: Professional hydraulic arm. 6 degrees of movement; waist, shoulder, elbow and wrist evevation, wrist roll and gripper. Uses position feedback sensors. Source: The Home Computer Advanced Course 1984 Name: Grafpad Manufacturer: British Micro Price: £143.75 Blurb: Drawing into the future. Graphics pad complete with light pen and software. Source: Sinclair User May 84 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- H --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Harris & Lockyer Keyboard Manufacturer: Harris & Lockyer Associates Price: £26.95 Blurb: Bare keyboard without a case. Presumabley they sit on top of the computer. Keyswicthes and a spacebar. Source: Sinclair User Oct 82 Name: Haven I/O Manufacturer: Haven Hardware Price: £16.95 Blurb: I/O ports. 8 input and 8 outputs. Source: ZX Computing Dec/Jan 84 Name: Haven Keyboard Beeper Manufacturer: Haven Hardware Price: £8.90 Blurb: Emits a beep when any key is pressed. {why? you can do the same with POKE 23609,x} Source: Sinclair User Jan 83 Name: Haven Single Key Input Manufacturer: Haven Hardware Price: £4.95 Blurb: Small board that is soldered inside the Speccy that eliminates the 'keyword' feature, instead giving single letter entry. Source: Sinclair User Jan 83 Name: Heart Rate Monitor Manufacturer: Magenta Electronics Ltd. Price: £29.98 Blurb: Monitor your heart rate via your finger tips. Place fingers over pads and the unit will do the rest. Source: Sinclair User Sep 83 Name: Hilderbay Interface Manufacturer: Helderbay Ltd Price: £45.00 Blurb: Centronics printer interface with software. Supports all printer commands. Source: ZX Computing Aug/Sep 83 Name: Hilderbay Tape-Aid Manufacturer: Hilderbay Ltd. Price: £5.95 / £7.95 Blurb: Cure tape loading problems with this interface. Stop drop-outs and load even poor quality tapes. Deluxe version (£7.95) has a larger meter. Source: Sinclair User - Mar 83 Name: Hobbyboard Intelligent Joystick Interface Manufacturer: Hobbyboard Price: £20.80 Blurb: Supplied in kit form, this was a standard programmable interface. Source: ZX Computing Apr/May 84 Name: Hobbyboard Micro Interface Manufacturer: Hobbyboard Price: £9.50 Blurb: Hobbyboard offered build-yourself kits to produce things like light pens, digitisers and model controllers. This interface was to 'professionalise' your kits. Source: ZX Computing Apr/May 84 Name: HyperShot Manufacturer: Konami Ltd. Price: £9.95 Blurb: Joypad with twin button. Aimed at sports sims like Hypersports it has buttons similar to the arcade machine. Source: Your Spectrum issue 18 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: I-Pack Manufacturer: Griffin Electronics Price: £15-20 approx. Blurb: Input/output interface with 8 analogue and 4 digital inputs and 4 digital outputs. Source: Magnus Loutit Name: I2L Joystick Interface Manufacturer: Interactive Instruments Ltd. Price: £14.95 Blurb: Standard Kempston compat. joystick interface. Source: Home Computer Weekly August 83 Name: I2L Spectrum Sound Manufacturer: Interactive Instruments Ltd. Price: £9.95 Blurb: Sound amp with speaker and Load/Save switch. Source: Home Computer Weekly August 83 Name: Interface 007 Manufacturer: G.A. Bobker Price: £34.95 Blurb: Back-up interface with built in joystick port. Source: Your Sinclair May 86 Name: Interface I Manufacturer: Sinclair Research Ltd Price: £29.95(seperate). £49.95(with Microdrive) Blurb: Controls up to 7 Microdrives. Built-in RS232 interface. Network up to 64 Spectrums. This, along with the Microdrive, revolutionised the way that the Spectrum worked. For the first time, Spectrum owners could experience fast access times and super-fast loading. Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: Interface II Manufacturer: Sinclair Research Ltd Price: £19.05 Blurb: Rom cartridge interface with twin joystick ports. Sinclair's second interface did not take off like the first one. This ROM interface was produced to try and keep up with the consoles. Instant loading ROM cartridges were produced for the interface, liecenced by Sinclair. Only 10 titles were available (to my knowledge), they were; Planetoids(Psion), Space Raiders(Psion), Backgammon(Psion), Pssst(Ultimate), Cookie(Ultimate), Jetpac(Ultimate), Transam(Ultimate),Hungry Horrace(Melbourne House), Horrace & The Spiders(Melbourne House), Chess(Psion). Source: Sinclair User Dec 83 Name: Interface III Manufacturer: Evesham Micro Centre Price: £39.95 Blurb: Transfers every program to microdrive. Snashot anything in memory and dump to drive. Source: ZX Computing Aug/Sep 85 Name: Interspec Manufacturer: DCP Microdevelopments Price: £39.95 Blurb: Multi port exspansion. Includes; 8bit TTL input, 8bit TTL output, 8 channel digital/analogue converter. Source: ZX Computing Apr/May 83 Name: Interstate 31 Manufacturer: Bud Computers Ltd. Price: £11.95 Blurb: Joystick interface that supports the IN 31 command as used by Kempston. Also includes rapid fire and reset switch. Source: Sinclair User Jan 85 Name: Interstate Pro Manufacturer: Bud Computers Ltd. Price: £22.95 Blurb: Programmable joystick interface. Allows the unit to 'remember' settings via onboard 1k Ram. Also includes reset switch. Source: Sinclair User Jan 85 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- J --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: J.E. Lazor Manufacturer: J. English Electronics Price: £17.99 Blurb: Touch sensitive joystick. Solid state switching. Source: Your Sinclair Feb 86 Name: Jiles III Joystick Interface Manufacturer: Jiles Electronics Price: £13.95 Blurb: Supports Kempston, Cursor and Psion via moveable peg. Source: Sinclair User Dec 83 Name: Joystick Interface (no offical name) Manufacturer: Interceptor Micros Price: £15.95 Blurb: Allows standard Atari type joystick to be used. Source: ZX Computing Aug/Sep 83 Name: Joystix Manufacturer: Interceptor Micros Price: £15.95 Blurb: Joystick interface with twin connectors. Controlled by software using the IN command. Source: Sinclair User March 83 Name: JRS Programmable Joystick Interface Manufacturer: JRS Software Price: £22.50 Blurb: Use your joystick with all your favourite software. Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- K --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Kappa Keyboard Manufacturer: Kappa Keyboards Price: £48.00 Blurb: Replaces the top of your Spectrum with a better keyboard. Source: Your Spectrum issue 8 Name: Kappa Keyboard Interface Manufacturer: Kappa Keyboards Price: £14.00 Blurb: Interface that allowed any 're-wireable' keyboard to be used on the Speccy. Source: Steve Drain - the man behind Kappa (steve.drain@kappa.zetnet.co.uk) Name: Kayde Standard Keyboard Manufacturer: Kayde Electronic Services Ltd. Price: £30.00 Blurb: Full travel keys. Source: Sinclair User Aug 83 Name: Kayde Super Plug-in Keyboard Manufacturer: Kayde Electronic Services Ltd. Price: £49.95 Blurb: Plugs into the user port. Source: Sinclair User Aug 83 Name: Kayde Deluxe Keyboard Manufacturer: Kayde Electronics Services Ltd. Price: £45.00 Blurb: Computer fits inside. Full sized space bar. Source: Sinclair User Aug 83 Name: Kayde 32k Ram Pack Manufacturer: Kayde Electronic Services Ltd. Price: £35.95 Blurb: Plugs into rear port and gives full 48k. Source: Sinclair User Aug 83 Name: Kayde Light Pen Manufacturer: Kayde Electronic Services Ltd. Price: £19.95 Blurb: Create pictures on your screen. Source: Sinclair User Aug 83 Name: Kayde Sound Module Manufacturer: Kayde Electronic Services Ltd Price: £9.95 Blurb: Fits inside your Spectrum and outputs the sound to your TV. Source: Sinclair User Aug 83 Name: Kelwood Backpack 1 Manufacturer: Kelwood Computer Cases Price: £27.50 Blurb: Box that will acomodate your PSU and give you extra features. Save/Load switch and On/Off switch. Variable sound amplifier. 3 13amp sockets with neon lights for other equipment. Other configuartions of this were available like 'no sound' or 'no sockets', at slightly cheaper prices. Source: ZX Computing Dec/Jan 84 Name: Kelwood K-Board Manufacturer: Kelwood Computing Cases Price: £28.50 Blurb: Small keyboard that fits over the top of the original Spectrum case. Source: Crash 7 (Aug 84) Name: Kelwood Power Base Manufacturer: Kelwood Computer Cases Price: £13.50 Blurb: On/Off switch. Load/Save switch. Angled case. Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: Kelwood Sound Base Manufacturer: Kelwood Computer Cases Price: £19.95 Blurb: All features of the Kelwood Power Base but with built in variable sound amplifier. Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: Kelwood (almost) Wireless Workstation Manufacturer: Kelwood Computer Cases Price: £49.00 Blurb: Mains On/Off switch. 4x13 amp sockets inside. All wires stow away. Carry handle. Accessories include; Powerbase (£11.00). Legs (£11.00) Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: Kempston Disc Interface Manufacturer: Kempston Price: £85.00 Blurb: Disc interface for the Speccy that allows 3, 3.5 or 5.25 drives to be used. (any compatible BBC drives). Software uses the Microdrive commands and also adds a few of its own, including a compressor that simply turns all numbers into there VAL equivilant. Source: PCW - Nov 85 Name: Kempston Joystick interface Manufacturer: Kempston Micro Electronics Price: £15.00 Blurb: Compatible with many games including AstroBlaster, Cyber Rats Frenzy, Pssst, JetPac, Slippery Sid and others. Conversion tapes available to convert games to run with this interface. Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: Kempston Interface E Manufacturer: Kempston Micro Electronics Price: £55.00 Blurb: Centronics printer interface for your Spectrum. Fully supports all standard print commands. Onboard EPROM holds all opperating code. Source: Sinclair User May 84 Name: Kempston Interface S Manufacturer: Kempston Micro Electronics Price: £39.99 Blurb: Same as the E version but without the on board EPROM so all controls will have to be loaded before use. Source: Sinclair User May 84 Name: Kempston Mouse Manufacturer: Kempston Micro Electronics Ltd Price: £69.95 Blurb: Two button mouse and interface. Source: Your Sinclair Jun 86 Name: Kempston PPI Port Manufacturer: Kempston Electronics Price: £16.50 Blurb: 24 line programmable peripheral interface. 3 x 8bit ports. Port mapped using IN and OUT. I/O via 16pin DIL socket. I/O also via 28pin edge connector. Requires 2 slot board (£16.95) Source: Sinclair User Dec 82 Name: Kempston Pro Joystick Interface Manufacturer: Kempston Micro Electronics Ltd Price: £19.95 Blurb: 3 joystick ports that support Kempston, Cursor and Sinclair. Rom cartridge slot for ROM games. Source: Your Spectrum issue 8 Name: Kempston Tri-State Joystick Interface Manufacturer: Kempston Micro Electronics Ltd Price: £12.95 Blurb: ?? Possibly a joystick port that supports three type of stick. Source: Your Sinclair Feb 87 Name: Keypanel Kits Manufacturer: Softeach Limited Price: £3.95 (+p&p) (for 10) Blurb: Put everything you need on the keyboard with a custom Keypanel Kit. At last, an end to keyboard fumble. A must for all multikey games. Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: Konix Liberator Manufacturer: Konix Computer Products Price: £34.95 Blurb: 10 function interface. Oooo ! lets list em... Centronics port, RS232 port, Sound via TV, Slow motion, Video port, Joystick port, Reset button, Through port, Save/load switch and power indicator.. Source: Your Sinclair Feb 86 Name: Konix Preditor Manufacturer: Konix Computer Products Price: £18.99 Blurb: Twin joystick port supporting all joystick types. Sound output to TV. Video (comp) port out. Source: Your Sinclair Mar 86 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- L --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Level-Vu Prism Manufacturer: Computer Add-ons Price: £3.99 Blurb: See your tape counter without having to lean forward ! Magnifies your counter. Source: Sinclair User Aug 83 Name: LMT 68FX2 Keyboard Manufacturer: LMT Computers Ltd. Price: £39.95 Blurb: 68 full travel keyboard with numeric pad. Source: Your Sinclair Feb 86 Name: LMT SPD1 Manufacturer: LMT Computers Ltd. Price: £89.95 Blurb: Disk and printer interface. Includes snapshot button. Source: Your Sinclair Feb 86 Name: Loadmaster Manufacturer: Probemaster Ltd Price: £11.49 Blurb: LED meter for signal strength. Fits between the cassette and the Spectrum. Source: Your Spectrum issue 11 Name: Logitek Floppy/Printer Interface Manufacturer: Logitek Price: 298 DM (£107 apprx) Blurb: Interface with built-in centronics port that also allows you to connect the Commodore 1541 floppy drive to your Speccy. Source: Magazine c't 1985 (supplied by Peter Sieg) Name: Logotron Sprite Board Manufacturer: Logotron Limited Price: £129.95 Blurb: Hardware based sprite/graphics board. Program sprites size, shape, colour and speed, and the the board does the rest. Source: Sinclair User Jan 85. Note: Was this ever released ? The adverts says 'coming soon' Name: Lo Profile Professional Keyboard Manufacturer: Advanced Memory Systems Ltd. Price: £49.95 Blurb: 53 full travel keys in a lo-profile case. Numeric key pad. Source: Your Spectrum issue 8 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- M --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Macface Manufacturer: ?? Price: ?? Blurb: 16k Ram,Stealth MNI freezer, turbo loader (optional) mad monitor. Source: ?? Name: Mancomp MO184 Keyboard Manufacturer: Mancomp Ltd. Price: £54.95 Blurb: Black angular keyboard with seperate numeric pad. 60 Full travel keys. Seperate numeric pad. Full sized space bar. Source: Your Spectrum issue 11 Name: Marder Battery Back Up Manufacturer: Marder Electronics Price: £17.99 Blurb: Battery back up for the Spectrum. 40 minutes usage after power out. Automatic switchout. Source: Sinclair User Dec 83 Name: Masterface 1B Manufacturer: Andy Soft Price: £?? Blurb: 8k Rom. Freeze button with turbo saver. Built-in monitor. Saves only to tape. Source: Malyrule Name: Masterface 2B Manufacturer: Andy Soft Price: £?? Blurb: Follow up to the Masterface 1. Snapshot interface with options to save to tape at three seperate speeds. (normal, high and trubo). Screen dump utility, monitor built in, Poke finder, memory search/ view. Could only save programs to tape though, not disk/microdirve. Source: Malyrule Name: MB-02+ Disk Interface Manufacturer: Sintech Price: 310.00 DM (£111.45) Blurb: Supports both DD (840k) and HD (1.8m) drives. Transfer rates of 25k/sec (DD) or 50k/sec(HD). 2k Eprom and 128k SRAM. Built in clock. Supports up to 4 drives. Kempston joystick port. Parallel port. Tape emulation system. Uses WD2797A disk controller + Z80-DMA. Source: FBI and Sintech's web page. Notes: This is a new piece of hardware with continuing development. Planned addons include a soundcard to allow MOD files to be played, CD-Rom interface, Modem, Video digitiser and more. Sintech's web page: www.online.de/home/sintech Name: ME16-48 Memory Upgrade. Manufacturer: Computer Add-ons Price: £20.50 (series B) £34.50 (Series A) Blurb: Easy fitting. Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: Mentor Manufacturer: Cybernetic Applications Ltd Price: £345.00 Blurb: Semi-professional hydraulic arm. 6 degrees of movement; waist, shoulder, elbow and wrist elevation, wrist roll and gripper. Uses potentiometer type sensors. Source: The Home Computer Advanced Course 1984 Name: Memoco Robotic Arm Manufacturer: Memoco Electron Price: £129.95 (£49.00 for interface) Blurb: 12 axis of movement. 270 degrees of rotation. 90 degree elbow. 270 degree wrist rotation. Source: Your Computer May 85 Name: MGT PLUS D Manufacturer: MGT (Miles Gordon Technology) Price: £52.13 Blurb: Disk interface with snapshot button. Interface 1 compliant. Up to 780k storage. Loads 48k in 3.5 secs. Source: Sinclair User Dec 88 Name: MGT Two Face Manufacturer: MGT Price: £14.74 Blurb: Interface switcher box. Allows otherwise incompatible devices by connected together. (Opus/Beta/Microdrive) Also includes joystick port. Source: Sinclair User Dec 88 Name: MGT Vidi-ZX Digitiser Manufacturer: MGT Price: £26.04 Blurb: Video capture device. Source: Sinclair User Dec 88 Note: This may be the same device as the 'Rombo Vidi-ZX' Name: Microbyte Protection Unit Manufacturer: Microbyte Price: £13.95 Blurb: Battery back up for your Spectrum. Protects against lost data due to power cuts. Source: Sinclair User May 84 Name: Micro Command Manufacturer: Orion Data Price: £49.95 Blurb: Sensational advance in computer game technology. You speak, the computer obeys. Easy to program voice control. Sensitive to individual voices. Instant response. Source: Sinclair User May 84 Name: Microdrive Manufacturer: Sinclair Research Ltd. Price: £49.95 Blurb: Sinclair's mass storage device. Uses a tape loop to 'emulate' a disk drive, offers random access and fast loading. This device alone improved the Spectrum 100%, allowing 85k per cartridge. Loaded a typical 48k program in 9 seconds. (requires Interface I) Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: Microframe Manufacturer: Gordon Micro Ltd. Price: £?? (another ad with no price !) Blurb: A frame to hold all your exteranl bits with PSU Source: ZX Computing August 85 Name: Microtext Keyboard Manufacturer: Microtext UK Ltd Price: £53.45 Blurb: Full travel keyboard with added 'joytick' keys and a fire button. Source: ZX Computing Dec/Jan 84 Name: Micro-Console Manufacturer: G.Chapman Ltd. Price: £7.50 Blurb: Holds Spectrum and Microdrive/Printer. Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: Micro Myte 60 Manufacturer: Micro-Myte Communications Ltd. Price: £48.00 Blurb: Accoustic modem. 1000 baud. Source: ZX Computing Oct/Nov 83 Name: Micropride Trackball Manufacturer: Micropride Ltd. Price: £19.95 (interface £7.95) Blurb: A trackball for your Spectrum ! Source: Your Computer March 85 Name: Micro Power Add-On Manufacturer: Micro Power Price: £19.95 Blurb: Bring joy to your joystick ! 1 standard joystick port. 2 potentiometer joystick ports. Amplified sound. 3 channel sound generator using the AY-3-8910 chip. Source: Sinclair User Sep 83 Name: Micro-Tidy Manufacturer: G.Chapmen Ltd. Price: £22.45 Blurb: Space for your Spectrum, PSU, tape recorder & tapes. Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: Microvitec Cub Monitor (1431/MZ) Manufacturer: Microvitec Ltd. Price: Send for info.. (Arn't those adverts annoying !) Blurb: 585x452 resolution. 18Mhz. Source: Sinclair User May 84 Name: Midwich Interface Manufacturer: Midwich Computer Company Ltd. Price: £22.95 Blurb: Analogue joystick interface. Uses ZN499E A/D converter. Movement of joystick results in signal from 0 to 255 allowing true analogue movement. Available in kit format at £17.20 Source: ZX Computing Apr/May 83 Name: Midwich Rampack Manufacturer: Midwich Computer Co Price: £29.95 Blurb: 32k external ram pack that upgrades your Spectrum's memory to 48k. Source: Sinclair User - Jan 83 Name: Miracle WS2000 Modem Manufacturer: Miracle Technology Price: £154.73 Blurb: 300/300 to 1200/1200 baud. Source: Your Spectrum issue 17 Name: Miracle WS3000 Modem Manufacturer: Miracle Technology Price: £?? Blurb: Not much. It was a press release ! Source: Your Sinclair Jun 86 Name: Miracle WS4000 Modem Manufacturer: Mircale Technology Price: £?? Blurb: Intelligent speed buffering. Not much as this was a press release and not a full advert. Source: Your Sinclair Oct 86 Name: Miracle ZX Printer Interface Manufacturer: Miracle Systems Ltd. Price: £39.95 Blurb: Plugs directly into the RS232 interface of the Interface 1. Centronics compatable. SourcE: Your Computer Jan 85 Name: Mirage Microdriver Manufacturer: Mirage Microcomputers Ltd. Price: £39.95 Blurb: Tranfers all your programs to Microdrive at the touch of a button. Freezes any software. Poke facility. Source: Your Spectrum issue 17 Name: Monicron Manufacturer: Macquillan Electronics Price: 14.95 Blurb: Load programs every time via 'Vu level meter'. Record speech with built-in microphone. Amplify the Spectrum sound. Built-in speaker. Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: Morex Interface Manufacturer: Morex Peripherals Ltd. Price: £39.95 Blurb: Centronics and RS232 ports. Built-in word processor. Supports all BASIC printer commands. Graphics dump. Line length limited only by printer. Full handshaking for both ports. Baud rates of 50 to 2400 bps. Source: ZX Computing Aug/Sep 83 Name: Morex Professional Disk System Manufacturer: Morex Peripherals Ltd. Price: £???? Blurb: 200k storage. 250k/sec. Self loading DOS. Source: Your Spectrum issue 2 Name: Mukbus Manufacturer: Microtext UK Price: Keyboard £41.95, PSU £36.95, Card frame £36.95, Case £11.50 Blurb: All-in-one keyboard & power supply unit. 40 full travel keys. Source: Sinclair User Dec 83 Name: MulteProm Manufacturer: Camel Products Price: £199.95 Blurb: Economical and sophisticated gang coupler. Source: Sinclair User Jan 85 Name: Multiface Manufacturer: Jelec Design Ltd. Price: £134.50 Blurb: Multi-function interface. 16bit in or out. 8 bit byte in and out. Digital to anologue. Analogue to digital. Source: Sinclair User June 86 Name: Multiface 128 Manufacturer: Romantic Robot Ltd. Price: £44.95 Blurb: For the Spectrum 128. See Multiface One. Source: Sinclair User Dec 88 Name: Multiface One Manufacturer: Romantic Robot Ltd Price: £39.95 Blurb: No1. multipurpose interface for the Spectrum. Internal 8k ROM and RAM. Fully automatic saving to Microdrive, Wafadrive, Beta, Opus etc.. Joystick interface. Toolkit with Peek/Poke functions. Source: Your Sinclair Jan 87 Name: Multiface 3 Manufacturer: Romantic Robot Ltd. Price: £44.95 Blurb: As Multiface one/128 but for the +3 machine. Allows comercial software to be halted and copied to disk. Source: Sinclair User Dec 88 Name: Multiprint Manufacturer: Romantic Robot Ltd. Price: £39.95 Blurb: Printer interface with built-in software and freeze button. Fully compatible with all ZX commands. Compatable with all Spectrums except +2 and +2a. 8k ROM includes Multi-toolkit with tools to view frozen programs. 8k RAM to use as you like. Can be used as a printer buffer or to load in Lifeguard(infinite lives finder) or Genie(disassembler). Source: Sinclair User Dec 88 Name: Multiron I/O Support Module 1 Manufacturer: Multiron Price: £14.60 Blurb: 8 channel A/D converter. Source: Sinclair Projects Jun/Jul 84 Name: Multiron ZX Spectrum User Port Manufacturer: Multiron Price: £13.90 Blurb: 16 line i/o port with crash reset button. Source: Sinclair Project Jun/Jul 84 Name: Musicom ML-10 Manufacturer: Micro Music Ltd Price: £52.95 Blurb; Interface that allows the Spectrum to be connected to the Casio MT200/PA1 synthesiser. Supplied with editing software. Source: Sinclair User Nov 84 Name: MW-100 Manufacturer: Mindware Price: $139.95 Blurb: American entry into the cheap Speccy printer market. This is a small dot matrix machine that prints on 1.75inch wide paper. It boasts several print modes including 32 character line-for-line, 132 character and 16 character wrap-around. Originally produced for the American Spectrum (Timex). Source: Sinclair User - Mar 83 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- N --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Neptune 1 Manufacturer: Cybernetic Applications Ltd Price: £1250.00 Blurb: Professional hydraulic arm. 6 degrees of freedom; waist, shoulder, elbow, wrist elevation, wrist roll and gripper. Uses potentiometer type sensors. Source: The Home Computer Advanced Course 1984 Name: Neptune 2 Manufacturer: Cybernetic Applications Ltd Price: £1725.00 Blurb: Professional hydraulic arm. 7 degrees of movement; waist, shoulder, elbow, wrist elevation, wrist roll, wrist yaw and gripper. Uses potentiometer type sensors. Source: The Home Computer Advanced Course 1984 Name: Ness Automatic Tape Control Manufacturer: Ness Micro Systems Price: £19.95 Blurb: On/Off switch. Built-in beep amplifier with volume control. Source: Sinclair User Dec 83 Name: Ness Beep Amplifier Manufacturer: Ness Micro Systems Price: £5.95 Blurb: Small amplifier. Source: Sinclair User Dec 83 Name: Nidd Valley Reset Manufacturer: Nidd Valley Micro Products Price: £4.95 Blurb: Slim box fitted with a reset switch. Source: ZX Computing Aug/Sep 85 Name: Nike-SP Manufacturer: Cambridge Microelectronics Price: £19.95 Blurb: Battery back up device. Also stops mains noise from interfering with your Speccy. Will give up to 30 minutes use. Source: Sinclair User Dec 84 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- O --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: OEL TTX2000 Manufacturer: O.E. Ltd. Price: £143.75 Blurb: Teletext adaptor for the Spectrum. Connects to the Ariel and receives Ceefax and Oracle. Store pages for later viewing. Original versions could not download the software available, but later versions included an updated ROM that added this cabability. Source: Sinclair User Jan 85 Note: This may be the same unit as the Volex TTX2000S, but the boxes and manufacturers are different. Any further info ? Name: Omega Manufacturer: Quant Systems Price: £?? No price but it excludes vat ! Blurb: Run CP/M on your computer via a standard RS232 port. Box contains Z80a, 64k Ram, 4k Rom, serial and parallel ports. Runs CP/M 2.2. Source: Your Spectrum issue 11 Name: Omega SCSI/Plus adaptor Manufacturer: Quant Systems Price: £?? Blurb: Low cost SCSI controller that connects direct to the Omega. 4 Megabits/sec throughput. Source: Your Spectrum issue 11 Name: Omni-Reader Manufacturer: Metroheath Ltd. Price: £39.99 Blurb: Optical character reader for the Spectrum. (amongst others). Flat plastic base with a rod at the right hand side, allows the reader arm to move over the document and the software converts it into text on the screen. The unit computes the letters of the text and transmits it as standard ASCII to the computer. Source: PCW Nov 86 Name: On/Off Switch Manufacturer: TEC Publications Price: £4.95 Blurb: Saves wear & tear. Source: Your Spectrum issue 17 Name: One Finger Mk.II Manufacturer: RAMS (Regis Amatuer Micro Society) Price: £ ?? Blurb: A one fingered typewriter for disabled people. Originally developed on the ZX81 (Mk.I), the interface and software allowed any disbaled person who could move at least one part of their body, to use a microcomputer. Programs developed for the system include a full featured word processor. Source: Sinclair User Apr 83 Name: Opus 3 inch disk drive Manufacturer: Opus Supplies Ltd Price: £229.95 Blurb: 400k storage. 3ms access. Direct drive. (needs interface) Source: Your Spectrum issue 11 Name: Opus 5.25inch disk drive Manufacturer: Opus Supplies Ltd. Price: £149.95 (single sided) £189.95 (double sided) Blurb: 100k (single sided). 200k (double sided) Needs interface Source: Your Spectrum issue 11 Name: Opus Discovery Manufacturer: Opus Supplies Ltd. Price: £199.95 Blurb: A true disk drive system for your Spectrum. 250k floppy drive and interface. Video output port. Joystick port. Through port. Parallel printer port. Source: Your Spectrum issue 17 Name: Opus Spectra Disc Interface Manufacturer: Opus Supplies Ltd. Price: £99.95 Blurb: DOS on rom. Compabible with all Opus drives. Centronics port. Source: Your Spectrum issue 11 Name: Orme EPROM Card Manufacturer: Orme Electronics Price: Card £21.25, EPROM £9.95 Blurb: Eprom card giving 10 extra BASIC commands. including re-numbering, editing, character manouvering and variable dumping. Source: Sinclair User Sep 83 Name: OZ Connector Manufacturer: J. Inceldon Price: £18.00 Blurb: Small box that sits between the cassette and the Speccy. Connecting a small speaker will allow you to hear and monitor the tape loading. You can also speek and intro for your programs via a microphone. Source: Sinclair User Dec 82 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- P --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Pacer Disk Interface & Disk Drive Manufacturer: Omnitronics Ltd Price: £189.95 Blurb: 400k storage. Built-in DOS. Supports 3.5 inch and 5.25 inch drives. Double or single sided. 40/80 track. Source: Your Spectrum issue 18 Name: Pacesetter Manufacturer: Nidd Valley Micro Products Price: £14.95 Blurb: Joystick interface with slow-down facility. Uses same hardware as the 'Slomo' but incooporates a Kempston compatable joystick interface. Source: Crash issue 21 (Oct 85) Name: Pacesetter Programmable Manufacturer: Nidd Valley Micro Products. Price: £29.95 Blurb: Same specification as the standard Pacesetter, but includes programmable joystick interface. Source: Crash issue 21 (Oct 85) Name: Page Programmable Joystick Interface Manufacturer: Page Computing Price: £26.00 Blurb: Built in rapid-fire. Compatible with all software. Source: Sinclair User August 84 Name: Peker Assembler Cartridge Manufacturer: Peker Computers Ltd. Price: £17.95 Blurb: Built-on software. Very fast assembly. Screws up practically every other peripheral. Source: Your Sinclair Jun 86 Name: Pellet Sound Amplifier Manufacturer: Pellet Products Price: £12.95 Blurb: Spectrum beep amp with volume control, Load/Save control, Reset button. Source: Your Computer May 84 Name: Petron Trichord Manufacturer: Petron Electronics Price: £26.95 Blurb: Sound synthesiser box. Pre-set or custom sounds. 6134 chords (48k). Uses AY-3-8910 chip. Source: ZX Computing Aug/Sep 85 Name: Pickard Controller Manufacturer: Success Services Price: £20.45 Blurb: Connect any Atari-type joystick and tell it which keys to emulate. Source: ZX Computing Aug/Sep 83 Name: Pinnacle Sound Amplifier Manufacturer: Pinnacle Electronics Limited Price: £7.99 Blurb: Battery powered sound amplifire/speaker. Source: Sinclair User Dec 83 Name: Polyprint Interface Manufacturer: Cambridge Microelectronics Price: £44.95 Blurb: Centronics interface. Source: Your Spectrum issue 17 Name: Power Buffer Manufacturer: Camel Products Price: £17.35 Blurb: Battery back-up for your Spectrum. Uses Nickel Cadium batteries. Source: Sinclair User Jan 85 Name: Print'N'Plotter Console Manufacturer: Print'N'Plotter Price: £5.25 Blurb: For the cost of a games cassette you can have a truly professional console for your Spectrum. We've cut costs (not cut quality) by designing a self-assembly method using relativley inexpensive materials like strong corrigated board. Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: Print'N'Plotter Keyboard Overlays Manufacturer: Print'N'Plotter Price: £2.95 (per pack of 10) Blurb: Forgotten which keys to press when playing a game ? Just write the function of each key under the keys and keep for the next time you play again. Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: Print-SP Manufacturer: Camel Products Price: £31.25 Blurb: Centronics printer interface. Source: Sinclair User Jan 85 Name: Prism VTX5000 Modem Manufacturer: OEL Price: £74.95 Blurb: 1200/75 baud modem with viewdata terminal software on ROM. This modem was initially for use with Micronet 800 (a section of Prestel), but due to other software, was able to access other non-viewdata (scrolling) systems. Also able to do 1200/1200 half duplex. Source: Sinclair User Sep 83 Name: Proface Manufacturer: Sintech Price: 100.00 DM Blrub: Interface that allows you to connect a standard PC AT keyboard to your Speccy. Special features include warm-reboot key conbination, F-key assignments for words like FORMAT and Useage of arrow keys and numeric pad. Internal and extarnal versions. (internal 90.00 DM) Source: FBI & Sintech's web site. Notes: Sintech are one of the very few, if not the only manufacturer still making hardware for the Speccy. They also make the MB02+ addon. Check out their web site. www.online.de/home/sintech Name: Promer-SP Manufacturer: Camel Products Price: £29.95 Blurb: EPROM programmer. Source: Sinclair User May 84 Name: Protek 1200 Modem Manufacturer: Protek Computing Ltd. Price: £59.95 Blurb: A modem four times as fast and half the price of the modem you've been looking for. 1200/1200 or 1200/75 baud rates. Accoustic coupling. Source: Sinclair User May 84 Name: Protek Switchable Joystick Interface Manufacturer: Protek Computing Ltd. Price: £19.95 Blurb: No programming required. No additional software. Switchable between Protek(cursor keys), Kempston and Sinclair. Source: Sinclair User May 84 Name: PR-Adaptor Manufacturer: PR Electronics Price: £8.95 Blurb: Overheating? Noisy? Problems solved with PR Adaptor. No soldering or dismantling. Regulates PSU. Source: ZX Computing Feb/Mar 84 Name: PowerBase Manufacturer: Computer Add-ons Price: £13.50 Blurb: Raised stand for your Spectrum includes Load/Save switch and On/Off switch. Saves wear&tear on connectors. Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- R --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Rainbow Joystick & Sound interface Manufacturer: Rainbow Electronics Price: £24.00 Blurb: Programmable joystick interface with sound. Sound amplifier to boost your output. Source: Sinclair User May 84 Name: Ramlok Manufacturer: Adapt Electronics Price: £8.00 Blurb: Device to stop the dreaded Ram-Pack wobble. Replaces the standard user port with a gold plated edge connector, complete with mechanical fastenings to hold interfaces tight. Source: Sinclair User - Feb 83 Name: Ramlok II Manufacturer: Adapt Electronics Price: £6.00 Blurb: Stop the dreaded 'wobble' with interfaces. Includes improved edge connector. Source: ZX Computing Dec/Jan 84 Name: RamMusic Machine Manufacturer: Ram Electronics Ltd. Price: £49.95 Blurb: Transform your SPectrum into a powerful music computer. Sound sampling, eight voices, midi port, reverb, echo. Source: Your Sinclair Jan 87 Name: RamPrint Manufacturer: Ram Electronics Ltd. Price: £34.95 Blurb: Printer interface. Centronics compatible. Built-in word processor (RamWrite). Joystick port. Source: Your Sinclair Jan 87 Name: RamTurbo Interface Manufacturer: Ram Electronics Ltd. Price: £22.95 Blurb: Turbo Charge Your Spectrum ! so the advert said... Rom cartridge slot that took the Sinclair cartridge games such as Jetpack, Cookie and Horace. The twin joystick ports could support Kempston, Cursor or Sinclair. A small reset button on the side was held down on boot to select Kempston/Cursor. Source: Sinclair User May 84 Name: RD Adaptor Manufacturer: RD LAbs Price: £9.50 Blurb: Adaptor board to allow you to connect the Digital I/O, Analogue and Clock interface. Source: Sinclair User - Jan 83 Name: RD Anologue I/O Manufacturer: RD Labs Price: £ ? Blurb: Anologue I/O port. Requires RD Adaptor. Source: Sinclair User - Jan 83 Name: RD Clock Manufacturer: RD Labs Price: £51.24 Blurb: Real time clock/calendar. Battery backed. Requires RD Adaptor. Source: Sinclair User - Jan 83 Name: RD Digital I/O Manufacturer: RD Labs Price: £33.93 Blurb: Digital I/O interface. Requires RD Adaptor. Source: Sinclair User - Jan 83 Name: RD Digital Tracer Manufacturer: RD Labs Price: £55.00 Blurb: Tracer arm allows you to trace images direct to screen. "Convert your Spectrum into your very own digital paintbox. without complicated programming you can paint anything quickly onto your TV screen. You can draw lines of varying thickness, blocks of colour or shading at a stroke and print text anywhere. Then you can englarge or reduce your picture, turn it upside down or even make a mirror image." Source: Sinclair User Aug 83 Name: Red Box Starter Pack Manufacturer: Red Boxes Price: £129.00 Blurb: Consists of three units, Red Leader, Red 1 and Red 2. Red Leader is the microcomputer that uses the Spectrum as a terminal, from which it can be programmed. Once done, it can be left alone to do its task. Red 1 is a slave unit that plugs into a standard wall power socket, Red 2 is an infra-red sensor. Both units connect to Red Leader, and can be controlled by it. Each unit can be 'read' and operated individually, and more units can be added. A built-in clock adds further uses, as each unit can be programmed to switch on or off at a given time. Ideal for home security. Source: ZX Computing Dec 86 Name: Redditch I/O Port Manufacturer: Redditch Electronics Price: £18.95 Blurb: 24 line I/O port Source: Sinclair Projects Oct/Nov 83 Name: REL4 (Analogue relay switch) Manufacturer: Harley Systems Ltd. Price: £55.00 Blurb: Max const. current 5A. Max voltage 250V. 1KW per channel. 4 channels. Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: REL 4.2 (analogue relay switch) Manufacturer: Harley System Ltd. Price: £58.00 Blurb: As above. Source: Sinclair User Dec 83 Name: Reset Switch Box Manufacturer: Computerworld Price: £4.49 Blurb: On/Off switch. Source: Your Spectrum issue 11 Name: Reset Switch Manufacturer: Central Electronics Price: £3.49 Blurb: Saves wear & tear. Source: Your Sinclair Jan 87 Name: Ricoll Action Replay Manufacturer: Ricoll Electronics Price: (just under £100) Blurb: Sound sampler that allow record/playback and storing of samples. Glitch free loops and playback at any pitch. Source: Your Spectrum No.3 Name: Ricoll Buffered Motherboard Manufacturer: Ricoll Electronics Price: £??? Blurb: Allows up to 8 interfaces to be attached to the Spectrum. Source: Your Computer Jan 84 Name: Ricoll RIKB1 Keyboard Manufacturer: Ricoll Electronics Price: £37.95 Blurb: Full travel 41-key keyboard plus full sized spacebar. Shift keys on both sides. Metal case. Source: Your Computer Jan 84 Name: Ricoll RIFG Sound Generator Manufacturer: Ricoll Electronics Price: £39.95 Blurb: Same unit as the RISG but has a programmable filters and two 8bit I/O ports. Source: Your Computer Jan 84 Name: Ricoll RISG Sound Generator Manufacturer: Ricoll Electronics Price: £29.95 Blurb: 3 channel sound synthesiser. Built-in amplifier and speaker. Built-in sweep filter, low pass, band pass and high pass filter. 3 Programmable oscillators (0.01Hz to 62KHz). Envelope shaper. Uses the AY3-8910 chip. Source: Sinclair User Jan 85 Name: Rombo Vidi-ZX Manufacturer: Rombo Productions Price: £29.95 Blurb: Video digitiser for all Spectrums. Grabs at 10 fps. Source: Your Sinclair Aug 88 Name: RomJoy Manufacturer: Rom Digital Ltd. (Greece) Price: 12.900 Greek Drachmas Blurb: A programmable joystick i/f which plugged into the expansion port and with wires (later revision with switches)emulated various keypresses. Source: Phoebus R. Dokos Name: RomSound Manufacturer: Rom Digital Ltd. (Greece) Price: 9.900 Greek Drachmas Blurb: Internal circuit that could output sound from the RF port Source: Phoebus R. Dokos Name: ROM SP Manufacturer: Camel Products Price: £29.95 Blurb: EPROM reader. Up to 16k. Source: Sinclair User May 84 Name: Rotronics Portable Case Manufacturer: SMT Price: £34.49 Blurb: The best accessory for your micro. Here is an ideal portable workstation. Contains places for your Spectrum, tape recorder, power supply, printer and tapes. Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: Rotronics Wafadrive Manufacturer: SMT Price: £99.95 Blurb: Mass data storage unit. Dual 128k drives. Centronics & RS232 ports. Source: ZX Computing Aug/Sep 85 Name: RZ1 Manufacturer: Stephen Adams Price: £20.00 Blurb: Allows you to control the tape motor and input/output select. Source: ZX Computing Aug/Sep 83 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- S --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: S-Pack Manufacturer: DCP Microdevelopments Ltd. Price: £49.95 Blurb: Speech synthesiser. Formaly known as the Digitalker. Has a vocabulary of 71 words which can be upgraded by purchasing extra voice packs in the form of ROMs. Source: ZX Computing Apr/May 83 note: Also known as the DCP Speach Unit. Name: S-Print Manufacturer: Technology Research Ltd. Price: £19.95 Blurb: Standard centronics printer interface. Source: Your Sinclair Jan 87 Name: Saga 1 Emperor Keyboard Manufacturer: Saga Systems Ltd. Price: £54.95 Blurb: 67 full travel keys. Stylish white case. Source: Your Spectrum issue 11 Name: Saga Compliment Manufacturer: Saga Systems Ltd. Price: £299.00 Blurb: Everything you ever wanted in one box. Box contains... Saga 2 keyboard, 3.5" disk drive (256k), Parallel printer port, Joystick port, Video out port, PSU. Supplied with 'Last Word' word processor, 'Masterfile' database and 'Omnicalc' spreadsheet. {the black box is a thinly disguised Opus Discovery} Source: Your Sinclair Jan 87 Name: Saga 2+ Keyboard Manufacturer: Saga Systems Ltd. Price: £54.95 Blurb: ??? Source: Your Sinclair Jan 87 Name: Saga 2001 Keyboard Manufacturer: Saga Systems Ltd. Price: £119.95 Blurb: Infra red keyboard. No wires. 101 full travel keys. Source: Your Sinclair Jan 87 Name: Saga 2 Crusader Keyboard Manufacturer: Saga Systems Ltd. Price: £59.95 Blurb: Full travel keyboard with full sized space bar. Source: Your Spectrum issue 4 Name: Saga 3 Elite Keyboard Manufacturer: Saga Systems Ltd. Price: £69.95 Blurb: 87 full travel keys. Source: Your Sinclair Jan 87 Name: Saga Disk Interface Manufacturer: Saga Systems Ltd. Price: £69.95 Blurb: Controls 3, 3.5 or 5.25 inch drives, single or double sided, single or double density. Snapshot button to grab and save your programs to disk. Source: Your Sinclair Nov 86 Name: Saga Disk Interface II Manufacturer: Saga Systems Ltd. Price: £89.95 Blurb: Features as Saga Disk Interface 1 but includes printer port. Source: Your Sinclair Nov 86 Name: Saga GP Graphics Tablet Manufacturer: Saga Systems Ltd. Price: £79.95 Blurb: Graphics table for your Spectrum. Source: Your Spectrum issue 17 Name: Saga Lo Profile Keyboard. Manufacturer: Saga/Advanced Memory Systems Price: £39.95 Blurb: Basically its the same as, or even exactley as, the Lo Profile Pro. seen elsewhere in this index. Later they changed the colour of the case from black to beige. Source: Your Sinclair Oct 86 Name: Saga Soundboost Manufacturer: Saga Systems Ltd. Price: £9.50 Blurb: Internal sound amplifier. Source: Your Spectrum issue 11 Name: Saga Flexicable Manufacturer: Saga Systems Ltd. Price: £12.45 Blurb: Extend your expansion bus with this flexible cable. Source: Your Spectrum issue 11 Name: Saga Turbo Interface Manufacturer: Saga Systems Ltd. Price: £21.95 Blurb: Twin joystick ports. Rom cartridge slot. Source: Your Sinclair Feb 86 Name: Scorpion Controller Manufacturer: Scorpion ?? Price: £249.00 Blurb: External controller unit. CMOS battery backed so once programmed it can operate without the host Spectrum. 24k onboard Ram. Four digital outputs. Onboard processor. Uses Logo language. Source: Sinclair User Dec 86 Name: Screenex Spectrum Doctor Manufacturer: Screens Microcomputer Distribution Price: £57.43 Blurb: A diagnostic and test unit for Spectrums. Plugging into the rear port, it will run tests and diagnose faults on the motherboard. 15 LED's convey the info about such things as address lines, data lines, CPU and ULA integrity. ROM and RAM checks are also done. Source: Sinclair User Aug 86 Name: Seil/JMS Interface. Manufacturer: Seil Price: £99.00 Blurb: Midi interface. 1 input, 3 output. Supplied with Live Sequencer software. Originaly imported from Germany, but now available in the UK. Source: Your Sinclair July 86 Name: Sinclair Official Spectrum + Upgrade Manufacturer: Sinclair Research Ltd. Price: £20.00 Blurb: Keyboard and casing upgrade to make your old rubbery Spectrum into a Spectrum Plus. Source: Your Computer March 85 Name: Sizzle Killer Manufacturer: Spectral Products Price: £5.99 Blurb: Prevents buzz and overheating problems. Source: ZX Computing Oct/Nov 83 Name: Skywave FORTH Manufacturer: Skywave Software Price: £49.95 Blurb: FORTH on ROM complete with a RS232 and Parallel interface. Source: ZX Computing Oct/Nov 83 Name: Slowmo Manufacturer: Cambridge Computing Research Price: £14.95 Blurb: Slow down or freeze your games. Source: Your Spectrum issue 11 Note: This device may have first been made by Nidd Valley. Name: Soft-Rom Manufacturer: Expandor Systems Price: £44.95 Blurb: The ultimate tool for machine code programmers. 16k add-on board allows you to page out the Spectrum Rom and use your own. Gives 64k of usable Ram. Extensive use of NMI. Non-destructive reset. Source: Your Sinclair Jan 86 Name: Softest Interface Manufacturer: Softest Price: £35.00 Blurb: Printer interface for all the Tandy printer/plotters. Source: ZX Computing Dec/Jan 84 Name: Solidisk Programmable Joystick Interface Manufacturer: Solidisk Technology Price: £8.50 Blurb: Programmable interface with little information ! Source: Sinclair User Aug 84 Name: SP48 (32k upgrade for 16k Spectrums) Manufacturer: East London Robotics Price: £23.00 Blurb: Easy installation without soldering. Upgrades your Spectrum to the full 48k. Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: SP80 (64k paged memory upgrade) Manufacturer: East London Robotics Price: £46.00 Blurb: 48k + a switched extra 32k. Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: Spec-Mate Manufacturer: A.T.& Y. Computing Ltd Price: £29.95 Blurb: Back-up interface. Snapshot any program to tape, Microdrive, Opus or Beta drives. Poke facility. Source: Your Sinclair Aug 86 Name: SpeccyDOS Manufacturer: (employees of) Philips & MBLE in Waterloo,Belgium. Price: cca. 8.000.- HUF in the currency exchange rate of the 80's Blurb: Disk interface for any 360 or 720KB FDD's Source: Jozsef "Sam. Joe" Samu Name: Specspansion Manufacturer: F B Tronics Price: £18.50 Blurb: 4 slot motherboard and 24-line bi-directional programmable portboard. On board +5 volts regulator. Built in address decoding available for 3 of the slots. Provision for 4 additional cards. (coming soon RS232, A-D converter, relay and joystick cards). Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: Spectel Manufacturer: Jaytronics Price: £29.95 (£9.95 for software) Blurb: Allows you to auto-dial and re-dial telephones numbers stored via the software program. Source: ZX Computing Apr/May 84 Name: Spectre Comms Pack Manufacturer: Spectre Communications Price: £94.00 Blurb: Twin pack consisting of the Q-Mod, a V23 modem originally designed for the QL, and a ROM based interface to make it work with the Spectrum. The modem supports 1200/75 and 1200/1200 and 300/300. The ROM based software allows both viewdata and scrolling BBS's to be used. The 300/300 option did include a bit of wire cutting though ! Source: PCW July 86 Name: Spectrum Amplifier Manufacturer: CP Software Price: £5.95 Blurb: Boost the Spectrums sound. Includes volume control, amplifier and speaker. Plugs into the EAR socket. Doubles as a radio when not connected. Source: Sinclair User Apr 83 Name: Spectrum Beep Booster Manufacturer: B.A. Reader Price: £6.95 Blurb: Boost your beeps ! Source: ZX Computing Apr/May 83 Name: Spectrum Computer Desk Manufacturer: PH Scientific Products Price: £16.00 Blurb: At last a Spectrum computer desk that has everything. Made from tough black ABS. Holds TV, Spectrum, PSU, Printer or tapes. Source: Sinclair User Aug 83 Name: Spectrum Interface Manufacturer: Ram Electronics Ltd. Price: £9.95 Blurb: Joystick interface. Kempston compatible. Source: ZX Computing Aug/Sep 85 Name: Spectrum KC Manufacturer: Nidd Valley Micro Products Ltd Price: £8.95 Blurb: Standard Kempston Compatable joystick interface. Source: Crash issue 21 (Oct 85) Name: Spectrum RGB Output Module Manufacturer: Adapt Electronics Price: £36.95 Blurb: Allows you to use your Spectrum on a proper RGB monitor. True TTL/Anologue outputs. Source: Your Spectrum issue 18 Name: Spectrum Speaker Manufacturer: J. Hunter Price: £5.50 Blurb: Boxed booster with speaker and volume control. Source: Sinclair User Oct 82 Name: Spectrum Speech Synthesiser Manufacturer: Spirit Instruments Price: £39.50 Blurb: Speech synthesiser using the allophone system. Includes built-in speaker. Source: ZX Computing Aug/Sep 83 Name: Spectrum Stand (no official name in advert) Manufacturer: E.R. Cameron & Sons Ltd Price: £23.50 Blurb: Wooden stand to hold your computer, cassette, printer and tapes. Source: ZX Computing Feb/Mar 84 Name: Spectrum-Stick Manufacturer: Grant Design Ltd. Price: £9.95 Blurb: Fits over the cursor keys and provides cursor emulation. Source: ZX Computing Feb/Mar 84 Name: Spirit Steering Wheel Manufacturer: Spirit Software Price: £8.95 (inc game) Blurb: Controller produced for Spirit Software's Fomrula One game. advert reads: "Naturally you cannot steer a racing car effectivley by pushing buttons or wiggling a joystick, so we have developed a steering wheel that fits to the Spectrum." Source: Your Computer March 84 Name: SS1 Speech Synthesiser Manufacturer: Computer Add-ons Price: £39.00 Blurb: Make amazing speech effetcs on your Spectrum. Plugs into rear port. Includes Volume control. Own speaker. Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: Stack Light Rifle Manufacturer: Stack Computer Services Price: £29.95 Blurb: Now you can shoot at the screen ! Plastic light gun allowing you to aim at targets on screen. Splits into smaller pistol stlye gun. Supplied with 3 games. Source: Sinclair User May 84 Name: Stack 100 Light Pen Manufacturer: Stack Computer Services Price: £28.75 Blurb: None ? Source: Your Spectrum issue 4 Name: Star Mouse Manufacturer: Saga Systems Price: £49.95 Blurb: Mouse ! Single button mouse with software. Source: Sinclair User Dec 86 Name: Stavi 128 Upgrade Manufacturer: Stavi Price: £ Unknown Blurb: Upgrade your 48k machine to a full 128k +2. (no midi,rs or joystick) Originally for the Timex machines it later became available for the standard 48k. Source: Bajtek Magazine (Polish) 1990 Name: Stonechip Programmable Joystick Interface Manufacturer: Stonechip Electronics Price: £24.95 Blurb: Enables any software to be used with a joystick. Source: Sinclair User Dec 83 Name: Stonechip Echo Amplifier Manufacturer: Stonechip Electronics Price: £19.95 Blurb: Attractive box with controls, amplifier and speaker. Source: Sinclair User Dec 83 Name: Stonechip Keyboard Manufacturer: Stonechip Price: £39.95 Blurb: 44 key, full travel keyboard. Built-in amplifier with volume and tone control. Reset button. Single key Delete and Extended mode. Source: Sinclair User Jan 85 Name: Stop-Reveal -(unable to assertain if this is h/w or s/w) Manufacturer: Kerr Price: £5.95 Blurb: Stop virtually any programs, even machine code. Reveals listing in programs. (even m/code) Source: Your Spectrum issue 11 Name: Straight Adaptor Manufacturer: Stephen Adams Price: £9.00 Blurb: Converts the Spectrum expansion bus to the same as the ZX81. Source: ZX Computing Aug/Sep 83 Name: Suncom Joy-Sensor Manufacturer: Consumer Electronics Ltd. Price: £29.95 Blurb: Joystick with a difference. Touch senitive controls. Source: Computer & Video Games Sep 83 Name: Sunset Video Digitiser Manufacturer: Sunset Price: £126.50 Blurb: 625 line digitiser. 256x192 x 4bit video digitising. Source: Your Sinclair Jun 86 Name: Super Amplifier Manufacturer: Magenta Electronics Ltd. Price: £17.98 Blurb: 250mW output. Variable attack, sustain and delay. Echo feature. Source: Sinclair User Sep 83 Name: Super-Interface FL1 Manufacturer: Kobrahsoft Price: £24.95 Blurb: An interface that allows you to convert normal tapes into fast-loaders. Save the tape back at one of four speeds. Source: Your Computer May 1986 Name: Super-Interace MDI Manufacturer: Kobrahsoft Price: £24.95 Blurb: Back-up interface to allow programs to be stopped and saved to microdrive/wafa or disk drive. Code is compressed during save. Saved programs can be loaded without the interface. Source: Your Computer May 1986 Note: The same device was later sold by Suredata. (YS Jan87) Name: Super Sound Spec-amp Manufacturer: Kelwood Computer Cases Price: £7.00 Blurb: Fully adjustable Spectrum sound amplifier. Plugs into mic socket. Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: Swift Disk Manufacturer: Sixword Price: £149.99 Blurb: Disk drive, interface and PSU. 3.5 or 5.25 inch drives holding 640k (formatted). Up to four drives can be attached. Transfer is about 7k/sec. Includes joystick port and snapsht button for transfering files. Also has complete hardware Microdrive emulation to support MD comapt. programs. Source: Crash Issue 44 Sep 87 Name: System 7 Reset Switch Manufacturer: System 7 Price: £5.00 Blurb: On/off and reset switch. Saves wear & tear. Source: Your Sinclair Jun 86 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- T --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Tactile Keyboard Manufacturer: Tactile Price: £9.95 - (price correction in SU Sep 83) Blurb: Box that fits over your Spectrum and allows pictures or words to placed on various enlarged pads. This can be used as a teaching aid. Source: Sinclair User Aug 83 Name: Tandy TRS-80 Colour Printer Manufacturer: Tandy Price: £149.00 Blurb: Includes interface. Red, blue, green and black print. Source: Sinclair User May 84 Name: Tape Head De-magnetiser Manufacturer: Fulcrum Products Price: £4.75 Blurb: Removes build-ups of magnetism on your tape heads. Source: ZX Computing Aug/Sep 83 Name: Tasman Parallel Printer Interface Manufacturer: Tasman Software Price: £29.90 Blurb: Centronics standard interface. Source: Your Sinclair Jan 87 Name: Tasman RS232 Printer Interface Manufacturer: Tasman Software Price: £29.90 Blurb: Standard RS232 printer interface. Source: Your Spectrum issue 8 Name: Telesound 84 Manufacturer: Compusound Price: £9.95 Blurb: The smallest modulator ever. Fits inside your Spectrum and outputs sound and video to your tv. Volume control. Keyboard click option. Hear programs as they load. Source: Sinclair User Dec 83 Note: There was a Telesound 82 (Sinclair User Oct 82) and I presume therefore, a Telesound 83 as well. Name: The Messenger Manufacturer: Sam Computers Ltd. Price: £22.00 Blurb: Device allowing data to be transfered from the Speccy to the Sam. It plugged into the expansion port on the Speccy and into the midi port of the Sam. It contained an NMI button that halted the system and transfered either the screen$ or the contents of Ram. Source: Ruggiero Antonio Name: The Remote Manufacturer: Blue Alpha Electronics Price: £34.99 Blurb: Two boxes that allow you to play games at a distance from the TV. Basically its an ultrasound joystick adaptor that uses standard joysticks. You plug one box into the Speccy and the other into your joystick. It has a usable distance of up to 8 metres at a 30 degree single angle. Source: Your Sinclair Iss 92 August 93. Name: Thurnall Disk System Manufacturer: Thurnall Price: £199.00 Blurb: Disk controller unit using the WD 1770 chip. Supported 3inch drives giving 150k storage. Built-in DOS. (RS232 port optional extra) Source: Your Spectrum issue 8 Name: Time Controller Manufacturer: Glanmire Electronics Price: £38.50 Blurb: Real time clock and input/ouput port. Battery backed up. Source: ZX Computing Oct/Nov 83 Name: Transform Keyboard Manufacturer: Transform Ltd. Price: £69.95 Blurb: 59 full travle keys. Key pad. Source: ZX Computing Aug/Sep 85 Name: Trickstick Manufacturer: East London Robotics Price: £28.00 Blurb: The Tricksick - A revolution that runs rings around ordinary joysticks. Its revolutionary light sensitive controls will let you go where you want, when you want and at the speed you want. Fully compatible with the Kempston format. Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: Triga Command Joystick Manufacturer: Datel Electronics Price: £19.99 Blurb: The top American joystick is here. Includes interface. Source: Sinclair User May 84 Name: Triton QD Manufacturer: Triton Price: £119.00 Blurb: 2.8inch disk drive. Stores 100k per disk. Trasfer rate of 101 kbits per sec. Source: Crash 21 (Oct85) Name: Trojan Light Pen Manufacturer: Trojan Products Price: £17.25 Blurb: Create exciting graphics on screen. Source: ZX Computing Aug/Sep 85 Name: Touchmaster Graphics Tablet. Manufacturer: Touchmaster Ltd. Price: £149.95 Blurb: A4 size. Source: Your Spectrum issue 11 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- U --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Unicom Modem Manufacturer: Unicom Price: £49.95 Blurb: Auto baud rate sensing, Auto dial and redial. Full and half duplex. Baud rates 300/300, 1200/1200, 1200/75, 75/1200. Source: Crash 13 (Feb 85) Name: Unisonic Amplifer/radio Manufacturer: Buttercroft Software Price: £4.99 Blurb: Sound amplifier that doubles as a mini radio. Source: Your Sinclair Feb 83 Name: University Analogue Port Manufacturer: University Computers Price: £49.00 Blurb: 24 channel control, 8 channels digital voltage input, 8 channels digital voltage output, 8 channels anologue voltage input Source: Sinclair User - Feb 83 Name: USP-ADAP Manufacturer: U-Microcomputers Ltd. Price: £6.90 Blurb: Back to back adaptor needed when you buy your first card. Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: USP-BBP3 Manufacturer: U-Microcomputers Ltd. Price: £35.65 Blurb: Buffered, 3 slot back plane for other USP boards. Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: USP-BPE4 Manufacturer: U-Microcomputers Ltd. Price: £25.30 Blurb: 4 slot back plane extension. Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: USP-PROT Manufacturer: U-Microcomputers Ltd. Price: £13.80 Blurb: Prototyping card used to design your own circuits. Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: USP-232D Manufacturer: U-Microcomputers Ltd. Price: £34.50 Blurb: Dual channel serial RS232 interface card using the powerful Z80DART chip. Baud rate of 75 - 9600. Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: USP-I/O Manufacturer: U-Microcomputers Ltd. Price: £29.90 Blurb: General purpose parallel interface using the Z80PIO chip. 2 8bit input or output ports. Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: USP-CENT Manufacturer: U-Microcomputers Ltd. Price: £3.45 Blurb: Kit for use with the USP-CENT for centronics compatible printers. Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- V --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Video Vault Upgrade Module Manufacturer: Video Vault Price: £79.95 Blurb: Turns your old 48k Speccy into a 128k machine including sound upgrade. It also included a Kempston joystick interface, Sound direct throught the TV, reset button and parallel interface. Source: Crash May 1990 Name: Videoface Manufacturer: Data-Skip Price: £69.00 Blurb: Video digitiser for your Spectrum. Fast 3 grabs/sec. Animate last 6 grabs. Save animations to tape/disk. Full 256x192 screen grab. Source: Your Sinclair Jan 87 Note: Romantic Robot also sold this unit. Name: Viscount Disk Drive System Manufacturer: Inteeractive Instruments Ltd. Price: £245.00 Blurb: 5.25in disk drive and interface. holds around 107k per disk. Source: Sinclair User May 84 Name: VISMO Joystick Interface Manufacturer: VISMO Price: 250fr (January 85) Blurb: Std joystick interface. Source: BOISSEAU Olivier Name: VISMO ZP83 parallel interface Manufacturer: VISMO Price: 1095fr (January 85) Blurb: Std parallel printer interface. Source: BOISSEAU Olivier Name: Volex TTX2000S Manufacturer: Volex Electronics Price: £145.00 Blurb: Teletext/telesoftware adaptor. Receive all teletext services without the need for a special TV. Download software. Source: Your Sinclair Jan 87 Name: Voltmace Delta 3S Manufacturer: Voltmace Ltd. Price: £10.00 Blurb: Compact, lightweight, hand held fingertip controler. Source: Crash 5 (Jun 84) Name: Voyager 7 Modem Manufacturer: Modem House Price: £91.94 Blurb: 300/300, 1200/75, 75/1200 full duplex, 1200/1200 half duplex.Autodial and autoanswer. Auto logon, Carousel up to 26 frames. Frame editor,Full Xmodem support, Xon/Xoff. Needs VTX 711 interface. (£119.90 for both) Source: Your Sinclair Oct 86 Name: VTR Parallel Centronics Interface Manufacturer: VTR Price: 790fr (January 85) Blurb: Parallel printer interface. Source: BOISSEAU Olivier Name: VTR Spectrum Programmable Joystick Interface Manufacturer: VTR Price: 260fr (January 85) Blurb: Programmable Joystick interface Source: BOISSEAU Olivier Name: VTR Vocal synthesizer Manufacturer: VTR Price: 470fr (January 85) Blurb: No info. Guess at speech synthesiser. Source: BOISSEAU Olivier Name: Vu-Load Manufacturer: Computer Add-ons Price: £19.99 Blurb: Ensure programs load every time. See the tape level. Source: Sinclair User Aug 83 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- W --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Watford SP-DOS Manufacturer: Watford Electronics Price: £99.00 Blurb: Disk interface with on-board DOS. Supports drives up to 800k. Source: Your Spectrum issue 11 Name: Watford Centronics/RS232 Interface Manufacturer: Watford Electronics Price: £29.95 Blurb: Centronics port. Bi-directional RS232 port. Source: Your Spectrum issue 11 Name: Watford 200/400/800k Disk Drive Manufacturer: Watford Electronics Price: £129.00(200k), £149.00(400k), £175.00(800k) Blurb: Disk drives... ! Source: Your Spectrum issue 11 Name: Wear Saver Manufacturer: Computer Add-ons Price: £9.50 Blurb: Saves wear and tear on your ear/mic and power sockets. Source: ZX Computing Feb/Mar 84 Name: Wico Trackball Manufacturer: CGL Price: £?? Blurb: Track ball working from any standard joystick port. Source: Sinclair User Feb 85 Name: WSX Mk1 Manufacturer: Wessex Microcomputers Price: £?? Under £300 ! Blurb: Interface that allows the Spectrum to be connected to other computers like the C64 and BBC, and allow data to be transfered between them. Uses the IEEE 488 connector. Source: Sinclair User Feb 85 note: Due to be launched soon, but was it ever released ? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- X --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: XK System Manufacturer: Stephen Adams Price: £14 + Ram (DIY kit) or £74 for full installation. Blurb: Gives up to 64k of internal RAM in your Spectrum. Software control of paging. Source; Your Spectrum issue 8 Name: XRI Micon Manufacturer: XRI Systems Price: £99.00 Blurb: Midi interface with 1 input, 2 outputs and a drum box synchronisation socket. Complete with software that will allow up to eight synchronised sequences and 26,200 notes. Source: Your Sinclair July 86 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Y --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Z --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Zeaker Micro Turtle Manufacturer: Colne Robotics Co Ltd. Price: £69.50 Blurb: Spectrum controled, 2 wheeled robot. Source: ZX Computing Aug/Sep 83 Name: Zeal Sound Booster Manufacturer: Zeal Marketing Ltd. Price: £14.99 Blurb: Interface to give your Spectrum clearer sound. Included volume control. Source: Sinclair User May 84 Name: Zero 2 Robot Manufacturer: Intergalactic Robots Limited Price: £? Less than £100 claims the add. Blurb: Small robot, controled via any RS232 port on your Speccy. Source: Your Spectrum issue 15. June 85 Name: ZON X Manufacturer: Bi-Pak Price: £25.95 Blurb: "Make amazing sounds with your Spectrum." 8 octaves, 3 channels with full control over pitch, volume, tones and noise, all with envelope control. Usable in your own Basic or M/C programs. Because this devices used the A4 address space, it is not compatable with the Interface 1 and Micrdrive. Because this was originaly a ZX81 interface, a small additional board is required. It sits between the ZON X and the Spaccy, and conatins a 3.5Mhz oscillator to stabalise the frequency. Source: Sinclair User Dec 83/Apr 83 Name: ZXM Manufacturer: Timedata Price: £29.95 Blurb: Sound box based on the 8912 chip. Includes twin joystick ports. Volume control, amplifier & speaker. Source: Sinclair User Dec 83 Name: ZXS Manufacturer: Timedata Price: £24.99 Blurb: Speech synthesis box. Needs ZXM to amplify sound. Source: Sinclair User Dec 83 Name: ZX Box Manufacturer: Interservice Electronics Ltd. Price: £9.95 Blurb: A Spectrum sound unit with amplifier. "A Sound Investment. Bring arcade style sound to your Spectrum." Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: ZX Loader Aid Manufacturer: Fulcrum Products Price: £12.20 Blurb: An interface to aid tape loading. LED's indicate correct volume setting. Source: ZX Computing Aug/Sep 83 Name: ZX Lprint III Manufacturer: Euroelectronics Price: £34.95 Blurb: Centronics printer interface. Works with standard commands. Also has RS232 port for serial printers. Source: ZX Computing Aug/Sep 85 Name: ZX Printer Manufacturer: Sinclair Research Ltd. Price: £39.95 Blurb: Sinclairs famous 'bog roll' printer. Needles were used to produce a thermal image on special 'silver' paper. 50 characters/sec. Source: Sinclair User Oct 83 Name: ZX Slowloader Manufacturer: East London Robotics Price: £10.00 Blurb: An interface that allows you to load your ZX81 tapes into your Spectrum. Source: ZX Computing Aug/Sep 83 Name: ZX Tapeloader Manufacturer: Elinca Products Ltd. Price: £14.99 Blurb: Trouble free loading and saving. Switchable load/save. Meter shows level. Filters cut out the noise to create the best signal possible. Source: ZX Computing Oct/Nov 83 =========================================================================== ******** * HELP * - ITEMS I KNOW EXIST BUT DON'T HAVE DETAILS ON - HELP WANTED ******** Upstream midi interface Stonechip lightpen Release Notes: -------------- May 99 - 459 Added Digimouse Added Anamouse Added I2L Joystick Interface Added I2L Spectrum Sound Added DK'tronics Game Controller Added Pellet Sound Amplifyer February 99 - 453 Modified a few 'Z' descriptions Added Star Mouse Added Screenex Spectrum Doctor Added Astracom AC1000 Added Kempston Disk Interface Added Omni-Reader Added Enterprise 1 Added Enterprise 2 Further release notes can now be found in the History.txt file. Contributors: ------------- Malyrule Who supplied info on Masterface 1B, 2B, Macface, AY Interface, Stavi 128 upgarde and alot of text info on the FDD 3000. Majik for confirmation about the Romantic Robot version of the Videoface. FBI for information about the MB-02 disk interface and the Proface. Damien Guard for info on Multiron stuff, Redditch I/O and the Datel 3 channel sound synth. Also info on the VTX5000. Brian Gaff for info in the VTX5000 Patrick Reilly for info on the VTX5000 Andy Davis Bsc. (Alchemist Research) for info on the Ram Turbo, Prism VTX5000 & Video Vault Upgrade and Crescent 128 disc system. ALso info on the Fiz Disk Interface. Jozsef "Sam. Joe" Samu For info on SpeccyDos Magnus Loutit For information on the I-Pack Andy in Belguim For info on SpeccyDos BOISSEAU Olivier For info on the VTR and Vismo range Phoebus R. Dokos For info on RomSound and RomJoy Ruggeiro Antonio For info on the Challenge Sprint and The Messenger. Matthew Wilson For info on the Swift Disk. Peter Sieg For info on the Logitek Floppy.Printer interface and ECB Steve Drain - the man behind Kappa (steve.drain@kappa.zetnet.co.uk) For info on the Kappa Keyboard Interface