A possible treasure trove

[RoseTintedSpectrum]

Hello folks - apologies for the possibly horrendously formatted post, currently away on a mini break but I've been contacted by a lovely chap who worked for Spectrum Research in the 80s who has an absolute trove of stuff and he wants to know what to do with it. My initial thoughts were the Computer Museum, but now I'm wondering if any of this stuff needs archived BEFORE that, any ideas?

Heres the list of stuff he has found so far...

"The ZX80 Monitor Listing (4K Version), by Ian Logan, Linsac, 1981
The ZX81 Monitor Listing Part A,0000-0F54, by Dr Ian Logan, Melbourne
House, 1981
Understanding Your ZX81 ROM, by Dr Ian Logan, Melbourne House, 1981
(Lernen Sie das ZX81 ROM vestehen, Ian, Logan, Birkhauser, 1984)
Understanding Your Spectrum, Dr Ian Logan, Melbourne House, 1982
(Spectrumfakta for effectiv programmering, Ian Logan, Applica, 1983)
The Complete Spectrum ROM Disassembly, Dr Ian Logan & Dr Frank O'Hara,
Melbourne House, 1983
(O Sistema Operativo Do Spectrum, Ian Logan e Frank O'Hara, Presenca, 1983)
Specrum Microdrive Book, Dr Ian Logan, Melbourne House, 1983
(Das Microdrive Universum, Ian Logan, Hueber, 1984)

And I have a bundle of show guides - so I presume I went to all of these
(and some others):

Second ZX Microfair, 30 Jan 1982, Central Hall, London
Edinburgh ZX Computer Show, 24 Jul 1982, Meadowbank Stadium, Edinburgh
Microscene Brum 82, 11 Sep 1982, The Bingley Hall, Birmingham
Xmas Microfest '82, 11 Dec 1982, UMIST, Manchester
Third ZX Microfair, 30 April 1983, Central Hall, London
6th ZX Microfair, 26 Feb 1983, New Horticultural Hall, London
7th ZX Microfair, 4 Jun 1983, Alexandra Palace, London
2nd Humberside Computerfair, 20 Nov 1983, Winter Gardens, Cleethorpes
9th ZX Microfair, 3 Dec 1983, Alexandra Palace, London
11th ZX Microfair, 28 April 1984, Alexandra Palace London

ZX books by other authors:

The ZX80 Magic Book, Timedata
30 Programs for the Sinclair ZX81 1K, Melbourne house
The Explorers Guide to the ZX81, Mike Lord
Advanced Programming for the 16K ZX81, Mike Costello
The ZX81 Companion, Bob Maunder, Linsac
The ZX81 Companion, Robert Maunder, Creative Computing Press
Peek Poke Byte & RAM, Ian Stewart & Robin Jones
Machine Language Programming Made Simple for your Sinclair, Melbourne House
The Micronet book, Alan Giles
Spectrum Adventure, tony Bridge & Roy Carnell
Spectrum Shadow ROM Disassembly, Gianluca Carri
The Spectrum Pocket Book, Trevor Toms
Spectrum Machine Language for the Absolute Beginner, William Tang
Master Your Microdrive, Andrew Pennell
Hisoft Pascal - booklet
QL Advanced User Guide, Adrian Dickens
Assembler Development Kit for the QL

Also, a copy of the Spectrum source code, given to me by Sinclair Research
The source code for the Interface and Microdrive.
A circuit diagram of the ZX81

Learning with adventure programs, Rosetta McLeod, Melbourne House

The ZX Companion (2nd Edition) Bob Maunder, Terry Trotter & Ian Logan, Linsac
Mastering Machine Code on the ZX81, Tony Baker (later 'Toni')

Understanding your ZX81 ROM, Dr Ian Logan (the 1st edition, rushed through, with lots of printer's errors !)

Understanding your ZX81 ROM, Dr Ian Logan (the 2nd edition, White cover)
ZX80 - Operating Manual
ZX81 - BASIC Programming

The ZX81 Pocket Book, Trevor Toms

Sinclar ZX81 ROM Disassembly Part B, Dr Ian Logan & Dr Frank O'Hara
ZX Spectrum - introduction
ZX Spectrum - BASIC programming
ZX Spectrum - Microdrive and Interface 1 Manual

40 Best Machine Code Routines, John Hardman & Andrew Hewson

Over the Spectrum, Melbourne House

Spectrum Monitor, Machine Code Debug & Disassembler

The Spectrum Games Companion, Bob Maunder, Linsac
Quick QL Machine Language, Alan Giles, Melbourne House

QL - QDOS manual (from Sinclair Research, for developers)
Magazines:

Popular Computing Weekly 36 copies, from No 1 23 April 1982 - 6 September 1984

Sync (the American ZX magazine) 10 copies {Have you ever seen these ?}

The Chess Computer Handbook Book, David Levy

ZX Forth users manual"

I think he's STILL digging through stuff as well.

[PeterJ]

Marvellous!

Some of the books have been scanned already, but the other stuff would be excellent to scan if you can.

[RoseTintedSpectrum]

I've had a word with the Computing Museum and it seems they scan and archive digitally for free as well, had no idea! I've asked him if he can get some pictures to me in the meantime, would be interesting to see what he has!

[PeterJ]

Excellent news!

[RoseTintedSpectrum]

An update on this, I've hopefully got Dr Ian Logan an interview with RetroManCave, as he'd be able to do a much better job than I ever could - NostalgiaNerd has also suggested we get some of that rare stuff scanned and archived onto archive.org so currently trying to get those two linked up as well, as NN has the facilities to do that. After that, we're going to look at him donating his stuff to the Computer Museum.

All good stuff!

[PeterJ]

Thanks [mention]RoseTintedSpectrum[/mention],

Please keep us posted.

Peter

[Mort]

If it all falls through , I can also scan them in


currently working through later issues of C&vg 130-277


All the best

Mort

[RoseTintedSpectrum]

Thanks all!

Another update - the Computer Museum have got in touch with him and will be taking charge on scanning/archiving all the items, which is great to hear.

Dr Logan has also decided to start up his own website, he says it's early work at the moment, and will change over time, but the basics are there and the URL should remain the same throughout. Lots of interesting stuff up already!

www.ianlogan.co.uk/sinclair/intro.htm

[PeterJ]

[mention]RoseTintedSpectrum[/mention]

Do you have any updates on the availability of any scans? Thsnks

[Loadzxspectrum]

Hi everyone,
First time posting here...

My name is Joao Diogo Ramos and some of you may know me and the LOAD ZX Spectrum Museum in Portugal that I co-founded.

A friend referred this post to me - I am normally more on social media, but I will be coming back more and more from now on.

It seems the matter is already taken care of which is a good thing. It is fundamental that we do not loose parts of the history that was so important to so many of us.

Over here we have been documenting in much detail the timex Portugal story and we work closely to Planeta Sinclair (Andre Leão) in their preservation efforts.

For those that may not know us yet, you can find more information in the website or Facebook, TripAdvisor, etc...
https://www.loadzx.com/en/

We are the first museum solely dedicated to the Spectrum and everything that surrounded it (all things Sinclair, timex, investronica, microdigital, etc).

If I can help in any way, let me know.

If you come to Portugal, pay us a visit and let me know to try to meet new friends.

Happy new year.

Cheers.

Joao Diogo Ramos

[RoseTintedSpectrum]

@RoseTintedSpectrum

Do you have any updates on the availability of any scans? Thsnks

Apologies for the delayed response - so far as I'm aware, the Computing Museum have it in hand but due to Covid restrictions, they're waiting until lockdown is lifted so they can pick up the items (rather than rely on post, probably a sensible option!).