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Looking for a good home for friend's Sinclair collection

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acegopher

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My good friend Craig, passed away at 52 from colon cancer (please get checked!) earlier this year. I have been helping find good homes for his collections.

Craig's wishes would be to find a home for these computers where they would bring joy, educate, and be used. Any money raised will be donated to preservationist causes (archive.org, VCF, etc.).

However, I am not connected to the US Sinclair community at all, so I don't know who or where to ask. Ideally, it would be a individual, group, or organization that could take everything and offer a fair price, who I could meet somewhere within a 4 hour drive of Columbus, Ohio, so that I don't risk shipping.

Here is the collection. I don't know what is working and what isn't:
  • A Timex Sinclair 2068
  • A Sinclair ZX Spectrum+2 in box
  • Two Timex Sinclair 1500's
  • A Sinclair ZX81 (no badge, could be a 1000?)
  • A caseless ZX80
  • A Timex Sinclair 1000 in box (looks complete)
  • A Timex Sinclair 1000 in box (some manuals, but accessories missing)
  • Timex Personal Printer 2040 in box
  • HiSoft Devpac Assembler/Debugger
Also, I may keep one item as a memory and also to learn more about Sinclair. What do you recommend I keep? Thanks for any advice you can provide!
 
Keep the ZX Spectrum +2 - It's got a nice keyboard and unless you really want the rubber key experience, with binary speaker, you can enjoy the same games and have the AY-3-8912 audio chip and it even has a RGB output so you can connect up to a modern monitor that accepts 15KHz signals. Also, the tape isn't too bad, and you can always use a headphone-to-tape adapter to load games from an external digital tape drive.

The other option is the Sinclair 2068 as an "American" Spectrum, though it's probably not as simple to get the Spectrum experience as the +2

If you put the whole lot on Ebay, you will get a reasonable market price - just post a link to it here in the for-sale section. Otherwise there's not a lot of US collectors and you'll likely need to part up the collection to sell to smaller collectors over time.

Also, this post should also probably go in the for sale section. You might find other collectors who don't frequent the Sinclair section who are curious about the Sinclair.
 
Could you save the systems and make it to the next vintage computer festival? I imagine they'd go very fast in person.
 
acegopher said:
My good friend Craig, passed away at 52 from colon cancer (please get checked!) earlier this year. I have been helping find good homes for his collections.

Craig's wishes would be to find a home for these computers where they would bring joy, educate, and be used. Any money raised will be donated to preservationist causes (archive.org, VCF, etc.).

However, I am not connected to the US Sinclair community at all, so I don't know who or where to ask. Ideally, it would be a individual, group, or organization that could take everything and offer a fair price, who I could meet somewhere within a 4 hour drive of Columbus, Ohio, so that I don't risk shipping.

Here is the collection. I don't know what is working and what isn't:
  • A Timex Sinclair 2068
  • A Sinclair ZX Spectrum+2 in box
  • Two Timex Sinclair 1500's
  • A Sinclair ZX81 (no badge, could be a 1000?)
  • A caseless ZX80
  • A Timex Sinclair 1000 in box (looks complete)
  • A Timex Sinclair 1000 in box (some manuals, but accessories missing)
  • Timex Personal Printer 2040 in box
  • HiSoft Devpac Assembler/Debugger
Also, I may keep one item as a memory and also to learn more about Sinclair. What do you recommend I keep? Thanks for any advice you can provide!
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Hi, I'm very much interested in the Timex 2068 and the Timex 1500's. I collect and repair all types of Sinclair systems and of these I only have a defective 2068. My email is m.ederveen on btinternet com.
 
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