The Spectrum family joins the GeekDex, and the first article goes live

The first real content is live: an article, and a wave of GeekDex entries to back it up.

The first article

I’m on the Spectrum — and My First One Has a Tape Drive tells the story of the first machine in the rebuilt collection: a grey Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2 128K, bought in Lisbon, why it won out over a classic 48K, and how a childhood spent with a Brazilian TK90X clone eventually led to the real thing on the other side of the Atlantic.

The GeekDex catches up

Writing that article meant every machine and accessory it mentions needed a proper home in the GeekDex first, so this update brought in a lot more than just the +2.

The Spectrum lineage, most of it built out for the first time:

• The machine itself — ZX Spectrum +2, plus the black-case +2A and +2B revisions
• The originals: ZX80, ZX81, the rubber-key ZX Spectrum 48K, ZX Spectrum+, and the ZX Spectrum 128 “Toastrack”
• The US cousins: Timex Sinclair 1000, 1500 and 2068
• The rest of the family tree: Science of Cambridge MK14, the Sinclair QL, the Cambridge Z88, and the Sinclair PC200
• Microdigital TK90X — the Brazilian clone that started it all, no specimen on the shelf, just the memory

Outside the Spectrum family, the article’s aside about the machines that didn’t get picked first — the 1977 “trinity” — also got proper entries: the Commodore PET 2001, the Apple II, and the TRS-80 Model I.

Along the way, GeekDex content also moved to a <category>/<maker>/<model> folder structure (mirroring how the reference photos were already organised), and picked up its first Wikimedia Commons reference photos for every entry without a specimen of its own to photograph.

That’s 19 new GeekDex entries from a single article. If that pace holds, the “4/22 categories” on the GeekDex header won’t stay that low for long.