... the 16K and 48K ZX Spectrum shared the same basic design, the hardware was not completely unchanged throughout <strong>production</strong>. Sinclair made a number of revisions to the circuit boards as the machine evolved, while also making changes intended to improve reliability, reduce <strong>production</strong> costs and simplify manufacturing. The earliest ...
... of the engineering work was carried out in Cambridge, while the Spanish distributor contributed to the development and <strong>production</strong> of the Spanish version. The Spanish launch came before the UK release, allowing Sinclair to introduce the new machine in an important market before bringing it to Britain. The Spanish machine also differed in ...
... method of accessing the silicon disc was continued when Amstrad purchased the rights to Sinclair computers and started <strong>production</strong> of the ZX Spectrum +2. The +2 was almost the same computer as the Spectrum+ 128K but with a full size keyboard, a built in cassette player and a few minor changes to the ROM. For this reason this article will ...
... hardware and, eventually, a new generation of Spectrum computers that would take the range into the final years of its <strong>production</strong>. The ZX Spectrum +2 The first Amstrad Spectrum was the ZX Spectrum +2, introduced in 1986. Rather than simply producing another version of the existing 128K Spectrum, Amstrad redesigned the machine around a ...