[02:28] <jrwren> cmaloney: you ever see a Realistic Minisette-10 14-1000 ?
[02:28] <jrwren> ever seen one operate with data adapter to a computer?
[03:37] <cmaloney> I remember seeing them in the catalogs, but don't recall them on a computer
[13:13] <jrwren> i've no idea what made me think of it last night... well... yes I do... i was looking at retro computer pics and it must have trigged a memory.
[14:20] <cmaloney> Ah
[14:21] <cmaloney> I think I have one picture of it hooked to a ZX Spectrum+ but I'll be damned if I can find that picture
[17:58] <jrwren> I may have used it with a ZX spectrum at one point.
[17:59] <cmaloney> Did you have a ZX Spectrum?
[17:59] <cmaloney> I thought that was unique to the UK
[18:00] <cmaloney> There was the Timex 2068 that was similar to the Spectrum but not quite
[18:00] <cmaloney> and the Timex 1500, which was the ZX81 /TS1000 but with 16K in a Spectrum-style silver case
[18:03] <Scary_Guy> Speaking of a friend just gave me a small C64 keyboard.  Nothing else though but at least that was saved.
[18:05] <jrwren> I'm not sure what I had TBH. My dad bought it at a garage sale for liek $10 or $20 long after it would have been cool.
[18:05] <Scary_Guy> That just makes it extra cool
[18:07] <jrwren> it was tiny, like a spectrum, but it had a weird membrane keyboard.
[18:08] <jrwren> oh... Sinclair ZX80, I htink.
[18:08] <jrwren> yeah, i remember the tiny ram. 1K was terrible by the time I got it.
[18:09] <jrwren> I remember hitting hte memory limit and thinking, WTF, I'm just a kid!
[18:09] <jrwren> it came out in 1980, but it didn't get to me until sometime around 86, 87 or 88.
[18:09] <jrwren> I don't really remember when.
[18:11] <jrwren> hrm... might have been a ZX81.
[18:11] <jrwren> actually... zz81 pcb3 looks about right. TY wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81#/media/File:Sinclair_ZX81_PCB_Revision_3_Keyboard.JPG
[18:13] <jrwren> the cool thing about the cassette interface was you'd hit play on the Realistic Minisette-10 14-1000 tape deck and since it was in remote mode it wouldn't spin. Pressing play only engaged the read head. executing LOAD caused the spin to start 
[18:14] <Scary_Guy> Neat
[18:24] <cmaloney> Yeah, it was probably a TS1000
[18:24] <cmaloney> though it could have been an actual ZX81
[18:29] <cmaloney> There's also this beauty: https://www.timexsinclair.com/product/cassette-recorder/
[22:16] <cmaloney> https://desktoplux.com/?id=1456 <- jrwren 
[22:16] <cmaloney> It's a Grundig, not a Realistic that's hooked to this Spectrum+
[22:17] <cmaloney> http://podstawczynski.com/retro/beauty_shots.html <- better link
[23:21] <jrwren> noice