Live stream: Hugo Mazer, one of the former managers of Czerweny Electronics of Argentina who made the #CzSpectrum during his tenure is now live on Youtube reminescing with other speccyheads from Spain, Portugal, and Uruguay
https://www.youtube.com/live/rpoA2b4cgSg?feature=share

#Czerweny #CzSpectrum #Cz2000 #ZxSpectrum #Speccy #retrocomputing

Here's a video of someone reviewing a #CzSpectrum Plus (in Spanish, subtitles available)

https://youtu.be/UN3zuoCMFLo?t=616

#retrocomputing #Speccy #Czerweny

The #CZ2000 is on its way home.

Missing:
- #TK95 (I already located one)

- #CzSpectrum Plus - it was the last model made by #Czerweny before they literally burnt out. Typical #Speccy in a #ZxSpectrum+ box, similar to the Spanish design by Investronica. It also had the ROM BASIC error messages translated, which was the cause of some incompatibility with certain titles. Very few CZ Plus were made, and I've never seen one in the flesh. No expectation or interest to get one.

#retrocomputing

In this argie #Speccy forum enthusiasts debate about the distinct features and merits of the argie-made Spectra. (in Spanish, but machine translation does a pretty good job)

https://www.retrocomputacion.com/forum/foro-general-sinclair/40900/cz-2000-y-cz-spectrum-diferencias/?p=1

#Cz2000 #CzSpectrum #ZxSpectrum #retrocomputing

#ZXSpectrum-like computers made in the Americas:

- BR #TK90X (early, with DIN joystick port)

- BR TK90X (later, with DB9 joystick port)

- US Timex Sinclair 2068

- AR #CzSpectrum

At least 2 other #Speccy were made I've been unable to source yet:

- BR #TK95 - by #Microdigital of #Brazil, improved keyboard, improved 48k compatibility, PT and ES characters, and an UDG editor.

- AR #CZ2000 - by #Czewerny of #Argentina, same case and same electronics of the Sinclair 48k

#retrocomputing

Just like starting over.

#CzSpectrum #Czerweny #ZxSpectrum #Speccy #retrocomputing

CZ Spectrum 48k is here earlier than expected, and it looks better than it did in pictures I had seen before.

I don't have an original Sinclair to compare here with me right now, but from my recollection this exactly the same case of the ZX Spectrum Plus, with the notable divergence of a flat faceplate on top, and a rubber keyboard. Weird little hybrid outwardly, all Sinclair inside.

We'll see what more I can learn from it.

#retrocomputing #CzSpectrum #Czerweny #ZXSpectrum #Speccy

The wonky case looks a bit weird, it looks as if they created a ZX Spectrum Plus case, but kept a flat plate on it to match the rubber keyboard. Other than that it's a real Timex Sinclair-made clone inside, and so is the keyboard. Notice they even retained the £ symbol.

It's in the post and should be delivered to me sometime in the next few days.

#CZSpectrum #Spectrum #Speccy #CZ #Argentina #retrocomputing

Oops! I think I may have hit the "Order" button.

A CZ Spectrum-branded clone assembled by Czerweny Electronics of Argentina from Timex Sinclair parts made in Portugal. Czerweny's first approximation to computing was making parts for the IBM printers division and for a while they took the chance to expand making home computers in the 1980s.

More:
- http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/34822/Argentinian-Sinclair-Spectrum/

- https://www.lanacion.com.ar/tecnologia/la-historia-de-czerweny-cz-spectrum-la-computadora-sinclair-con-sello-argentino-nid1886082/

#CZSpectrum #Spectrum #Speccy #CZ #Argentina #retrocomputing