Despite being stylish, cheap and definitely innovative the Microdrives were -one has to admit- rather shoddy and infamously unreliable and that was exactly the gap the Opus Discovery Disk System aimed to cover. Costing almost 200 pounds, this pretty excellent backup/disk drive thingy wasn't a particularly popular add-on, but it definitely was a very handy solution. And it worked perfectly without eating away at the Speccy's humble RAM. No, really, here's a review.
Happily and due to its obvious retro status you can now grab one for a much more reasonable price via this Spectrum w/ Opus Discovery System auction. Not only will you be getting a fully working disk drive which doubles as a power source, but also a 48k ZX Spectrum, a TV-out cable, a manual and some disks. Seller ships worldwide.
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Any electronic device where each individual key is so gloriously overloaded with different functions is immediately tops in my book! Another winner gnome - thank you!
ReplyDeleteYou are most welcome dear Charlie. And technical prowess aside, this is admittedly an incredibly useful bit of hardware too.
ReplyDeleteSomeday, someone's gonna take all those Interface 1's & 2's and all the other plug-in gubbins and expansion packs and plug them into one 48k Speccy, which'll be hooked up to the internet via a VTX 5000 modem and watch as it gains sentience and becomes the first A.I.
ReplyDeleteEither that or you will bring the world at an end. Will be interesting regardless of outcome though...
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