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Re: Happy ZX Vega+ Dispatch Day everyone!

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On Tue, 7 Aug 2018 17:26:10 +0100 da kidz on comp.sys.sinclair were rappin'
to MC Duncan Snowden:

> 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.

Yep.  It looks like they've started developing it and run out of
money.  So you've basically got a Spectrum in a cardboard box which
somebody has drawn buttons on.

Chris


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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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