Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Duncan Snowden Newsgroups: comp.sys.sinclair Subject: Re: Happy ZX Vega+ Dispatch Day everyone! Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2018 17:26:10 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 24 Message-ID: <20180807171636.3ef7add5@talktalk.net> References: <9935e9b0-800d-48d2-a1cd-df69733a4a7b@googlegroups.com> <0a30e59e-8837-428a-b194-b588443b9175@googlegroups.com> <20180804181427.420bc6ea@talktalk.net> <5B674DE6.MD-1.4.17.chris.young@unsatisfactorysoftware.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: +20ZMHC+liXEsbl+XE42gA.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 3.16.0 (GTK+ 2.24.32; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.sinclair:4676 On 5 Aug 2018 19:20:06 +0100 "Chris" 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.