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whoa! Very impressive. I'd buy one of these if it were for sale.

I sometimes wonder why someone doesn't reissue the old Sinclair, Commodore, BBC, and Amiga machines as a "retro special edition"(licensing issues?).

My first computer was an ZX Spectrum and I'd gladly pay for a brand new machine.

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> My first computer was an ZX Spectrum and I'd gladly pay for a brand new machine.

So was mine! I had a Russian clone of it. I love Z80 assembly. I remember I also had a C and Pascal compiler for it. I had to spend 10-15 minutes loading it from tape. Then one wrong pointer dereference and had to start everything from scratch.

Over at http://www.zxbada.bbk.org/badaloc_fpga/index.htm there's a Xilinx Spartan FPGA project. It should be possible to shoehorn this into a laptop case too.

If you want to play with something similar, there's the Ben Nanonote : http://sharism.cc/

More powerful, but really cheap and fun. And so small.

Old HP computers (the 95LX, 100LX and 200LX) still sell for upwards of $100 on eBay. Still, there probably aren't enough enthusiasts to justify launching a new product.

Well it has happened - just not with home computers like the ZX Spectrum or Commodore 64, per se.

I'm thinking specifically of the Atari Flashback 2, which was a single-chip reimplementation of the Atari 2600 (even has cartridge connector solder points on the board). Then there's also the innumerable NES, Super NES, and Sega Megadrive/Genesis clones that have been produced recently...

Actually it has happened with the Commodore 64: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C64_Direct-to-TV

same here, I started on a ZX clone and really regret selling it for the equivalent of $15 when it was still working but I got a 386.

you can still buy them, I got a zx81 with 16k ram pack not long ago for $40

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