It also provides the software tools to manage these virtual drives and tape cartridge images, in.mdr format, from the ZX Spectrum itself. The information related to the virtual drives and cartridge images are stored on SD card. Housed in an existing Microdrive housing the vDriveZX can be connected to the ZX Spectrum via the ZX Interface 1.
The 48k ZX Spectrum The ZX Spectrum was a range of based on the and sold by, the business company owned by British inventor. The computer was first produced in April of 1982 as part of a project to sell computers for a low price that any family could afford. The ZX sold more than any other computer at that time in. The first ZX was especially known for being very strong. The keyboard was made of rubber and the casing was made of steel. Sinclair's company produced seven different ZX computers, but other had deals with Sinclair Research to build their own version of ZX computers.
The biggest of those companies was the American manufacturer who produced three different ZX based computers. Timex were selling between 18,000 and 20,000 of the ZX Spectrum based home computer every month by June 1981 but the Timex computer did not work properly so they had to stop selling them in 1983. Timex were the who made most of the Sinclair Research ZX for but the European versions worked correctly. The Sinclair Research version of ZXs were made until 1990 but other companies around the world copied the ZX and made many versions after that. When Sinclair Research stopped making the ZX Spectrum there had been more than 10,000 different available and lots of. Some companies still sell new games for the ZX.