Did you have your own TV/monitor when you got your Speccy?

[Nitrowing]

Has anyone had to re-acquire an analogue TV for their vintage computing kit? I have 2 modern flat screens in the house, both work fine for my Spectrum +2 with RGB-to-SCART cable, but my ZX81 absolutely refuses to play ball with them. They both have analogue inputs but the ZX81's UHF output seems to be too dirty for either of them to pick it up and lock onto it. I don't fancy trying to do any mods on it.

I scoured eBay and got one of those dinky black and white portables with built-in radio that used to be common in caravans. It works pretty well.

I have 2 or 3 in the spare bedroom

[Crafty88]

Had a B/W portable TV which I had used previously with my uncles ZX81 that I had on loan.

Then was a year or so later I got a colour TV.

Mind you with my original spectrum to help boost the sound volume I connected it to the AUX input on my Hi-Fi.