I was screaming at the screen where the BREAK key was and couldn't stop laughing at the tape load error. That took me back to the 80's. Great video

The Break Key discovery was such a funny moment. Great video as ever you two 😀

Loading tapes: There is no space between quotes in LOAD ""; that will try to load first program it finds on the cassette. Volume should be high, turn tone low, and turn off any equaliser effects (like Bass Boost). Good luck!

It's a sharp looking little guy

Back in the early 80s, my Uncle got one of those, brand new. It was an upgrade to his Timex/Sinclair 1000. I was a Commodore guy, owning a VIC-20 at the time, but still found his "color Sinclair" rather fascinating. Over a decade later, when I was developing an interest in "vintage computers", I got permission from my Uncle to have his Sinclair 2068. I just had to get it from his Mom's house. Turns out, she threw it away, along with his Timex/Sinclair 1000 and also an Atari 400 setup, boxes and all. ☹ Then FINALLY, just a year or so ago at a VCF East swapmeet event, I was finally able to acquire a SInclair 2068 of my own. Brings back memories of using one so long ago. It even came with a modern ROM adapter of some sort that someday I'll play around with and see what it can do.

Loved the jump cut to R Tape loading Error - there was nothing more horrifying that getting that message after waiting 20mins for a tape to load!

Best Timex Sinclair accountancy episode ever!

5:57 That eye roll. LOL!

The tape loading bit was great. "It's doing the thing, it's doing the thing..."

Yes. The correct time to find the "break" key is after you have started an infinite loop.

I stand impressed, bowled over, and intrigued

That's some Price is Right level of $$$ 😂

Be careful with the expansion port. It is wired differently from a Spectrum. You can get a Timex Sinclair 2068 Twister adapter to make the expansion port Spectrum compatible.

That Budgeting Games is riveting! I’m on the edge of my seat!! Who won though? 😂

The most entertainment anyone has ever had out of budgeting software 😂

Strangely enough, the Spectrum had a cartridge slot but only if you had the ZX Interface 2. Six games on cartridge! Scroll? can be got rid of by pressing N for No. Break is shift + space. Looks a bit like a TI99/4A, very fancy!

Had that brand new in 1984, it was fantastic and I learned so much on that. Also sold software for it back in the 1984-85.

Bravo !

Hey, you may need to use a player that is mono. the tapes are recorded in mono and a stereo player has two heads so you are getting less of a signal when you play a mono tape on it. BTW, Noel's Retro Lab had a video about cassette tapes I believe. Keep having fun!

Cool!

Did I hear, 'out of cheese error, reboot universe'? Very 'Hex' 😊 Great video, ladies. Was surprised about needing a space between the quotes in a LOAD - thought most just used two sets of double quotes with nothing in between for first program on tape… although it’s about 40 years since seeing a class-mate's Spectrum in action during A-Level Computer Science back when I was a sixth-former at school. Of all the things to miss about the 8-bit days, loading from cassette might be bottom of the list 😂

Haha! Only Taylor and Amy can turn a boring old budget program into something fun and exciting

New In the Box Thats Great You can have A lot of fun that nice pick up

Who doesn't need a Kempston?! An American Spectrum... Too bad it propped people's doors open instead being used for its intended purpose. Thank you for the divine comedy!

I never tried a Sinclair 2068 (they didn't last long here in North America, as you stated), but both volume and play speed of a tape deck may affect loading. On the Coco, usually a volume of 6-8 worked best for me (scale of 0 to 9), not sure if the Speccy was the same. On your cassette deck, does it have EQ or tone controls? You may need to fiddle with those as well so that you aren't dropping frequencies that the computer cassettes require.

Just another slow Tuesday with cassette tapes.

I had the Timex Sinclair 1000 (still do, it's somewhere around here) and wanted the 2068, but I never saw one in the flesh. I got an Amiga instead.

Another fun video. Looks like a cool machine, I guess there were just too many established bases for an interloper from the UK to have an impact. Yeah, tapes could be a bit of a pain. Turn off any embellishments the player has (like bass boost) and don't have the volume set too high. Also fast forward fully and rewind the tape to make sure it's evenly wound. Also clean the tape head. You can use isopropyl alcohol on a cotton swab.

The critter is a warm fuzzy....

To really see how neat that machine was you needed Fighter Pilot or Tomahawk from Digital Integration. You could use both joysticks to control the aircraft, something unheard of back then! Budgeter was not exactly a great game LOL

The KZfaq algorithm decided to stop putting your videos into my feed. This comment is to try to show KZfaq that i want to see your videos. Also, that is an awesome computer!

I always thought that computer was cool looking 👍 🎉

Sorry we got so used to, well, actually love sexy black with rubber here in Europe, with our ZX Spectrums. We're bad. Though I just uploaded the working proto of my USB keyboard interface, so we can all pass on to sexy black Cherry Red keys now. Maybe with a rubber casing..

With a commodore datasette i could get just about any tape to work.

She says: "So we don't have to mod it. 😀" I heard: " So we don't have to mod it. 😪"

I don't know if this is a rumor or real but supposedly on Christmas in '83 Santa ran out of coal due to an energy crisis. Instead, all of the bad little boys and girls who were asking for a Colecovision or Atari 5200 with Congo Bongo & Zaxxon instead got this with only Budgeter.

"American Spectrum, stay away from me-eee! American Spectrum, we say zed not zee-eeeee!"

You got the flashy-flashy, but it didn't last as long as it should, and it should have said something like "Found: THE PROGRAM NAME", even if it then decided it didn't want to load that. So usually that was because the volume isn't high enough, or some other problem. I think someone else suggested a mono tape deck as well - or you can use a stereo->mono jack converter to combine the channels. Although as a (stupid) kid I would economise on my tapes by recording a different program on the L and R channels. This works well enough to be possible, but not well enough to actually be reliable, but I was a dumb kid, so I did it anyway.

You all can even make accounting software look fun!

ZX Spectrum's American cousin

If its format is compatible with the Spectrum, use the OTLA fast loader through your PC. It load audio files in seconds and converts tap files to OTLA audio files.

The computer doesn't have floating point unlike the TMS99110A

Soooo it's like a UK Spectrum with the plus 2 interface built in or are the carts a different format?. Very cool! Tape loading on the speccy was all about VOLUME and also making sure the tape is running at the right speed if using an old cassette player. Good Luck

Eric Cartman Voice : *_Scanning for Hippies_* _Beep Beep Beep Boo-Boo-Boo-Boop_ "No Hippies Detected" I enjoyed this. I was waiting for someone to say some hippy non sense. Thanks for not doing that.

Two weeks later: if the previous suggestions did not help, it might be the belt or belts on the cassette mechanism need to be replaced.

BUDGET ALERT!! XD

Apparently Spectrums just were/are extremely flaky tape loaders. So your devices, settings and/or media may have no problems, your Speccy - I mean Timey - just wants you to try a couple more times.

set the volume control at 5 and 7 and that should work.

How did you get a Game Over in a budget program?

So I have to ask how long have you guys been together for???