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Name: BASE more
Manufacturer: Micro Byte International
Year: 1984
Type: Add-on
Price: 17,500 Lire
Blurb: All-in-one Housing of the Spectrum and its original PSU, power-on led and reset button.

Name: Basicare Clock more
Manufacturer: Basicare Micro System
Year: 1984
Type: Add-on
Price: £45.00
Blurb: Battery backed, real time clock/calander for the Basicare system. Uses the Basic variable t$ to store the time/date and is updated every 50th of a second.

Name: Basicare Drom (2K) more
Manufacturer: Basicare Micro System
Year: 1983
Type: Add-on
Price: £39.50
Blurb: Battery backed Non-volatile memory for storing programs quickly. Can also be used for autostart purposes, starting your Spectrum with routines to give special fonts, time etc.. For use with Basicare system.

Name: Basicare Link A more
Manufacturer: Basicare Micro System
Year: 1983
Type: Add-on
Price: £40.00
Blurb: Eight channel analouge input module for the Basicare system.

Name: Basicare MiniMap more
Manufacturer: Basicare Micro System
Year: 1983
Type: Add-on
Price: £35.95
Blurb: Memory mapping/paging module for the Basicare system.

Name: Basicare Pericon A more
Manufacturer: Basicare Micro System
Year: 1983
Type: Add-on
Price: £27.90
Blurb: General purpose, user-programmable device providing 24 lines of TTL input/output for the Basicare system.

Name: Basicare Pericon B more
Manufacturer: Basicare Micro System
Year: 1983
Type: Add-on
Price: £33.75
Blurb: Heavey duty, buffered version of the Pericon A for the Basicare system.

Name: Basicare Pericon C more
Manufacturer: Basicare Micro System
Year: 1983
Type: Add-on
Price: £41.75
Blurb: Centronics printer interface for the Basicare system. Supplied software allows you to create your own machine code driver.

Name: Basicare Persona SP more
Manufacturer: Basicare Micro System
Year: 1983
Type: Add-on
Price: £45.00
Blurb: Initial interface for the Basicare 'Tower Of Power'. Once the interface was connected, you could then add any of the other Basicare modules. Buffered 64-way bus.

Name: Basicare RAM 08 more
Manufacturer: Basicare Micro System
Year: 1983
Type: RAM/ROM
Price: £24.50
Blurb: 8K RAM module for the Basicare system.

Name: Basicare RAM 16 more
Manufacturer: Basicare Micro System
Year: 1983
Type: RAM/ROM
Price: £26.75
Blurb: 16K RAM module for the Basicare system.

Name: Basicare RAM 64 more
Manufacturer: Basicare Micro System
Year: 1983
Type: RAM/ROM
Price: £76.25
Blurb: 64K RAM module for the Basicare system.

Name: Basicare Sonus more
Manufacturer: Basicare Micro System
Year: 1983
Type: Sound/Speech
Price: £30.15
Blurb: 3 voice Sound synthesiser for the Basicare system.

Name: Basicare Toolkit more
Manufacturer: Basicare Micro System
Year: 1983
Type: Add-on
Price: £22.20
Blurb: Takes up to 8K of EPROMs/ROMs Can be used to store your own programs or utils, ready to use at any time.

Name: Battpack more
Manufacturer: Adaptors & Eliminators Ltd
Year: 1983
Type: Add-on
Price: £13.95
Blurb: Protect your programs with this rechargeable, Ni-Cad battery pack and transient suppressor. Keeps the power at 9v, even if the mains goes off. Is able to run your Spectrum for 30 minutes.

Name: BEEP Amp more
Manufacturer: Hypnotech
Year: 1983
Type: Sound/Speech
Price: £23.95
Blurb: Spectrum amplifier. 8 watt amp with 10 watt woofer.

Name: Beep Amplifier more
Manufacturer: Lander Microsystems
Year: 1982
Type: Sound/Speech
Price: £11.50

Name: Beta 128 Disk Interface more
Manufacturer: Technology Research Ltd
Year: 1987
Type: Disk
Price: £69.95
Blurb: Disk controller with snapshot button to save your programs to disk. Supports both 3.5 and 5.25" drives giving up to 2mb storage.
Note: Runs the TR-DOS operating system.
The ROM image is available at Phil Kendall's The Spectrum ROMs Collection.

Name: Beta Disk Interface more
Manufacturer: Technology Research Ltd
Year: 1984
Type: Disk
Price: £249.75 (with disk drive)
Blurb: Disk interface that supports single or double density drives. Operating system on EPROM. Supports 3.5 or 5.25" drives. Runs up to 4 drives.
Note: Runs the TR-DOS operating system.
The ROM image is available at Phil Kendall's The Spectrum ROMs Collection.
There also was a Beta 128 Disk Interface.

Name: Big Ears more
Manufacturer: William Stuart Systems Ltd
Year: 1982
Type: Sound/Speech
Price: £49.00
Blurb: Speech recognition system. large box and mic, as seen on BBC tv 'computer programme'.

Name: Binatone Data Recorder more
Manufacturer: Binatone
Year: 1985
Type: Cassette

Name: Bloprom more
Manufacturer: Camel Products
Year: 1985
Type: RAM/ROM
Price: £89.95
Blurb: EPROM programmer. Supports 2516,2716/32/32a/64/64a/28/128a, intel 74a/128a.

Name: Boss joystick, The more
Manufacturer: Silica Shop
Year: 1984
Type: Joystick
Price: £16.80

Name: BRG MC Tape Drive System 3810A more
Manufacturer: BRG
Type: Cassette
Note: Seems to be an updated version of the Waltham MC3810 Data Recorder.

Name: Bright Output Module more
Manufacturer: Adapt Electronics
Year: 1986
Type: Monitor/VDU
Price: £29.95

Name: Brother HR-5 printer more
Manufacturer:
Year: 1984
Type: Printing
Price: £189.00

Name: Brother M-1009 printer more
Manufacturer:
Year: 1984
Type: Printing
Price: £199.95

Name: Button, The more
Manufacturer: Pip Electronics
Year: 1986
Type: Add-on
Price: £24.95

Name: Byte-Box 1 more
Manufacturer: Micha Design
Year: 1983
Type: Add-on
Price: £97.75
Blurb: Multi input/output interface. Includes; 4 relays, 1 ADC up to 5 channels, 1 DAC (adjustable) 1 Input port, 1 Output port, 1 Joystick port. All in one box.

Name: Byte-Box 2 more
Manufacturer: Micha Design
Year: 1983
Type: Add-on
Price: £137.50
Blurb: Multi input/output interface. Includes; 8 Relays, 2 ADC's up to 10 channels, 1 DAC (adjustable) 2 Input ports, 2 Output ports, 2 Joystick ports. All in one box.

Name: Byte Drive 500 more
Manufacturer: ITL Kathmill Ltd
Year: 1984
Type: Disk
Price: £305.50
Blurb: Mass storage system with interface and drive units. 440K storage via 3" single sided, double density drive. 220K in 11 sectors per side. Access time of arouns 3ms. Interface built into cable includes ULA, 16K ROM and controller chip.
Note: They planned a double sided version of this unit, anyone know if it ever appeared ?