[Martin Bush]

Good morning

I was thinking about looking into picking up a spectrum purely for a bit of enjoyment. I don't plant to try to fix a broken one, nor do I want to overhaul one (except maybe change belts on a tape drive or something down the more trivial end of things).

So I was wondering if there were any tips for picking up a decent one, or a model to go for. Ideally I want to avoid having to get repairs done when the equivalent of 'that capacitor' goes if there is such a thing on these machines.

I used to have a 128k +2 but wondered whether a 48k (because of size) or 128k +3 (due to the disc drive) would be better options.

At this stage I am just casting around for ideas. I am open to looking into refurbished units if anyone can recommend a good outlet or someone on here who does good work.

I am not a 'gamer' and don't play games ordinarily so this would just be a bit of fun, albeit in a vintage package (i know there's emulators available).

Martin