MI3 RGB Monitor Interface
Miracle Systems Ltd
1983

IT'S A MIRACLE

If £35 for a few chips sounds a little expensive to you, then you obviously haven't heard of the Miracle Systems MI3 interface.

Its a fairly large black box which you plug into the back of the Spectrum. It then has a socket on the outside to allow a normal RGB monitor to connect to the machine in the same way as the BBC. In effect, this machine has the same circuit as the special Microvitec monitor but fits on the Spectrum directly instead.

As an added extra, it also contains a sound amplifier. A volume knob on top is provided to keep the neighbours happy and the box takes all its Power and signals from the edge connector. And so it should - at a cost of just over £70. It's better value to buy the Microvitec monitor and put your ear closer to the machine. Unless of course you already have a monitor.

And talking of TVs, the new Sinclair flat screen TV is now available, but still only through mail order. It costs £79 and is a true pocket television. You can run it from a mains adaptor or a special battery. There's no connection for linking it to a computer, although such a facility would be impractical anyway and rather difficult to read.

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Blurb: Billed as the world's smallest TV, the new Sinclair device features a 1.5 inch screen. Power is from either a mains adaptor or special battery. Picture quality is excellent, although sound is rather distorted at louder levels. Available through mail order the set costs £79.95. Power adaptor and batteries are extra. This new screen technology has still to be used as the display for a computer. Until the size of the screen can be increased, this will be impractical.