you wouldn't want to mess up with the soldering iron
messianic light
Guesser
> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Mint-boxed-V-Rare-unassembled-ZX81-Kit_W0QQitemZ120485037898QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_VintageComputing_RL?hash=item1c0d77c74a
as much as I hate stuffy collectors who put functional things in glass
cases to just look at, that's the sort of thing that definitely belongs
in a museum collection where it can be kept for posterity imo
(also, we need to keep pristine condition examples of these things for
the day that star trek replicators are invented so we can load the
mouldings etc into the pattern buffer)
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tipped iron and steady hands its true, but the most annoying thing was its
boring soldering all those many similar or the same bits.
Beware you get the right link in for your tv system though.
Brian
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"messianic light" <damianj...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Mint-boxed-V-Rare-unassembled-ZX81-Kit_W0QQitemZ120485037898QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_VintageComputing_RL?hash=item1c0d77c74a
Richard Hallas
wrote:
> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Mint-boxed-V-Rare-unassembled-ZX81-Kit_W0QQitem...
"You wouldn't steal a handbag"
Seriously, this kit ought to be in a museum. The bid has reached a
pretty amazing price already, but if the buyer ended up just
assembling the kit, it would completely destroy its value. I hope it
at least remains in its current unassembled condition.
Matthew Westcott
> Seriously, this kit ought to be in a museum. The bid has reached a
> pretty amazing price already, but if the buyer ended up just
> assembling the kit, it would completely destroy its value. I hope it
> at least remains in its current unassembled condition.
Wasn't there an entire warehouse full of these a few years back, which
someone on here (Chris Cowley is the name that's stuck in my head, but I
could be wrong) was selling at a very reasonable price, but stopped
after people started buying them to re-flog on eBay for twice the price?
Brian Gaff
someone like that.
Nobody has rushed around to me to get the several boxloads of vtx 5000s
never ever used as yet though, so I'm thinking this interest in Speccy old
stuff and zx81 kits might be just a few foolish people with too much money!
Brian
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RLM
> messianic light wrote:
>> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Mint-boxed-V-Rare-unassembled-ZX81-Kit_W0QQitemZ120485037898QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_VintageComputing_RL?hash=item1c0d77c74a
>>
>
> as much as I hate stuffy collectors who put functional things in glass
> cases to just look at, that's the sort of thing that definitely belongs
> in a museum collection where it can be kept for posterity imo
I think you are right. I would love to have a crack at building one, but
I wouldn't have the nerve! People have lots of collections of old
machines that they love and cherish as their computer museum, but this
is something else again. IMHO It should be preserved in the British
Museum along with a zx80 kit and an early speccy.
> (also, we need to keep pristine condition examples of these things for
> the day that star trek replicators are invented so we can load the
> mouldings etc into the pattern buffer)
This is one of the best comments I have seen in the 15 years I have been
using newsgroups.
Cheers,
Becky.
Nama
> Guesser wrote:
> > messianic light wrote:
>
> > as much as I hate stuffy collectors who put functional things in glass
> > cases to just look at, that's the sort of thing that definitely belongs
> > in a museum collection where it can be kept for posterity imo
>
> I think you are right. I would love to have a crack at building one, but
> I wouldn't have the nerve! People have lots of collections of old
> machines that they love and cherish as their computer museum, but this
> is something else again. IMHO It should be preserved in the British
> Museum along with a zx80 kit and an early speccy.
>
> > (also, we need to keep pristine condition examples of these things for
> > the day that star trek replicators are invented so we can load the
> > mouldings etc into the pattern buffer)
>
> This is one of the best comments I have seen in the 15 years I have been
> using newsgroups.
>
> Cheers,
> Becky.
I'm pretty sure you can still get these kits new for US$99, I believe
the company selling them was called something like Zebra Systems. I
Bought one about 2 years ago. I haven't dona anything with it as it's
still sitting in it's box.
Phil
Mark
Mark
Just a bit more info as to how Zerba Systems came about these:-
http://www.zebrasystems.com/zebrasystems/zx81/message.htm
Incidently, I bought one of these a few years ago for $100 inc shipping.
Still in mint condition....I wonder..... Ebay or not ;-)
RLM
> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Mint-boxed-V-Rare-unassembled-ZX81-Kit_W0QQitemZ120485037898QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_VintageComputing_RL?hash=item1c0d77c74a
It went for 445UKP!
Cheers,
Becky.
Mark
"RLM" <mothergla...@googlemail.com> wrote in message
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Yeah but I suspect that's a one off. The bid was at �455 with 18 hours to go
and there was no last minute rush so I think it's just a case of 2 people in
the entire ebay community who really wanted it. I seem to remember they were
going for about �100 a few months ago. Seems more reasonable
Mark