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Another 8 bit system. There’s been a bit of a run of them recently. The Schneider CPC 464 is essentially the Amstrad CPC 464 used by most of Europe. Not very commonly seen in the
Something different this time, this is a Phonemark Load-It style datasette for the Commodore 64. It’s in a bit of a rough shape. A Datasette is just what Commodore like to call the data recorder.
This Spectrum came in having become a bit flaky. It was actually booting though, which gives a good indication that the lower RAM is OK. There are two banks of RAM in a 48k Spectrum.
Although essentially an Amstrad CPC 6128 and common in Europe, these are quite unusual to see in the UK. They differ mostly in styling, with the grey keys. The floppy drive in these is a