ZX curiosities - Spectrum and PC200 at Personal Computer Show '89

ZX curiosities: Personal Computer Show '89

Believe it or not, in Britain as many games for the Spectrum are still released every year as software for all the other computers put together. The Spectrum was also present at this PCS, this time in a package called the Sinclair Spectrum Action Pack. It was sold with a joystick, a light gun and six games that let the user shoot at the screen.

Several sets were on display, and visitors played non-stop.

And rightly so. We’re not the worst, either! But to show that the Spectrum isn’t just for games, there was also the PC200 from the previous show, along with a new printer for it, the SP200. It is a conventional 9-pin printer, printing 160 characters per second in draft mode and 40 characters per second in NLQ mode. It weighs just 4.2 kg, and according to the manufacturer, together with the PC200 it is the only PC-and-printer package available for less than 400 GBP. The printer alone costs 169 GBP.

Until the next PCS.