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Re: Happy ZX Vega+ Dispatch Day everyone!

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From Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net>
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Subject Re: Happy ZX Vega+ Dispatch Day everyone!
Date Tue, 7 Aug 2018 17:26:10 +0100
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On 5 Aug 2018 19:20:06 +0100
"Chris" <chris.usenet@mail-filter.com> wrote:

> Personally I would have waited for it to have boiled over and then
> stuck it on eBay as a L@@K R@RE Sinclair ZX Vega+ - Early Vega+,
> only ~36 made, genuinely rare item.  And then sat back and watched the
> nutters overbid for it.

I was thinking exactly the same thing. Have you seen what Gizmondos
(Gizmondoes? Gizmondi? Gizmondae?) go for these days?

Fact is, apart from the buttons and the shoddy case edges... and the
easily-scratched screen cover... and, er... where was I going with this?
Oh yeah... the actual internals do seem to *work*. More or less. The
imperfections are probably fixable. Which isn't much consolation if
you've waited two years for one and it's turned out to be a load of
shoddy old junk, but in ten years' time it might be quite a desirable
bit of retro kit itself.

I almost wish I'd backed it, actually. Almost.

-- 
Duncan Snowden.

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Happy ZX Vega+ Dispatch Day everyone! deKay <andyk@lofi-gaming.org.uk> - 2018-05-08 11:02 +0100
  Re: Happy ZX Vega+ Dispatch Day everyone! shaunb@cruise.co.uk - 2018-05-08 03:18 -0700
  Re: Happy ZX Vega+ Dispatch Day everyone! Shaun Bebbington <shaun@square-circle.co.uk> - 2018-05-08 05:21 -0700
    Re: Happy ZX Vega+ Dispatch Day everyone! Shaun Bebbington <shaun@square-circle.co.uk> - 2018-05-09 02:30 -0700
      Re: Happy ZX Vega+ Dispatch Day everyone! Shaun Bebbington <shaun@square-circle.co.uk> - 2018-05-31 02:04 -0700
        Re: Happy ZX Vega+ Dispatch Day everyone! Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net> - 2018-08-04 23:16 +0100
          Re: Happy ZX Vega+ Dispatch Day everyone! "Chris" <chris.usenet@mail-filter.com> - 2018-08-05 19:20 +0100
            Re: Happy ZX Vega+ Dispatch Day everyone! Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net> - 2018-08-07 17:26 +0100
              Re: Happy ZX Vega+ Dispatch Day everyone! "Chris" <chris.usenet@mail-filter.com> - 2018-08-14 18:29 +0100

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