On 12 July 2016 at 21:41, Swift Griggs <swiftgri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jul 2016, Steve Browne wrote: > > The ZX Spectrum Next is going to be interesting.... > http://www.specnext.com/ > > Wow! I hope that takes off. It's beautiful. Plus, in other news, they will > ship schematics! Wow. > > > Look at that industrial design! Designed by Rick Dickinson who was > > behind the ZX80,ZX81, ZX Spectrum, Spectrum Plus and QL > > That's pretty impressive. It'd be like Jay Miner (RIP) returning to > re-create an Amiga 5000. > > Thanks for pointing that one out. It's exactly the kind of thing I was > looking for. Now, if they'll only ship... > > -Swift > Well I'm hoping so. There was an update a couple of days ago on the Facebook page, where they said: "This resulted in the current price of the Spectrum Next to be around £160 including the accelerator board" "The original plan of starting the campaign on Kickstarter in June is now pushed back around a couple of months" So keep alert! Steve