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  • portable distress signal - a portable 'Mayday flare' for the motorist with engine problems, the pleasure sailor in trouble, or the stranded mountaineer
  • ZX extensions - more bytes, more inputs, more outputs
  • disco drum - a choice of rasta, funky, or disco beats . . . or would you really prefer the monotonous 'boom-boom' of other drum synthesizers?
  • daisywheel typewriter printer interface - an inexpensive high quality computer printer
  • maximum and minimum memory - analogue voltages remembered . . . . . digitally!
  • lead-acid battery charger - a two-stage design to enable fast charging without reducing the battery's lifespan
  • wireless microphone - a high quality FM transmitter
  • merging BASIC programs - a utility program to merge two distinct basic programs and making use of utility software from the OS disk 2
  • echo sounder - sonar for yachts
  • versatile audio peak meter - with peak hold facility
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