A long time ago (2002), I came across a design for an IDE interface for the +3e. I loved this idea, a Spectrum with a Hard Drive, even if this particular interface only gave you half the hard drive s capacity. At the time, I was getting into PCB design, and with a dodgy version of [ ]
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To recreate the manual I had to pop to eBay to find a reference one. Good quality manuals were hard to find, the one I ended up with had a lot of work to do in it. Pages were scribbled on, fixing mistakes in the original copy, and plans for a game the original owner [ ]
Work in Progress of building a brand new C64 with all new parts including manuals, and box