Many years back I got my Spectrum to run on an old greenscreen mono monitor I was given. I don't have that speccy any more but decided to try the same trick on a spec I picked up on eBay earlier this year. With a composite output it is possible to hook it up to most modern TVs and many computer monitors.
Well, technically there is nothing to it... the Spectrum already has the composite signal (it is fed into the UHF modulator box that converts it to a TV signal) so its just a matter of getting the signal to the outside world.
I already had a 3.5mm mono jack to coaxial video lead from an Olympus digital camera (its the lead for showing your pics on the TV set) so I decided to simply add a 3.5mm socket so I could use the same lead.
The modulator is the nice little tin box on the inside of the Specc's TV connector. Take care when lifting the lid off the speccy or you might accidentally pull out the keyboard ribbons
Fit the socket... ah hot glue, how thee makes a craftsman of any pleb!
And the proof of the pudding... a "Specbook"
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