Getting into Spectrums a lot and especially the plus 2A/B which I personally feel was the pinnacle of the Spectrum brand.
The politics of late 80's UK computers aside Amstrad had refined the design and manufacturing process and produced a cheap and reliable home computer.
Of course it was massively under powered, Amstrad under the guidance of a greengrocer didn't really know what to do with it and failed to fund R&D to keep the Speccy competitive against the likes of Nintendo, Sega and Commodore all of whom had 16 bit machines on the brink of launching.
Can you imagine what a 16 bit Spectrum would have been like?
Anyway I'm way off topic (again)
This Spectrum I've been sent by a customer (@OldSkoolCoder) crashed whenever you try and type anything in the 128 modes so I use some diagnostic tools from Retroleum to figure out the problem.
Check out the Retroluem smart card here:
https://www.retroleum.co.uk/spectrum-...
Phil Kendal's Rom List
http://www.shadowmagic.org.uk/spectru...
The TL866 Programmer
http://www.autoelectric.cn/en/tl866_m...