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# Hardware Review: SPECTRUM Conversion Kit

About a month ago I received a golden flyer from [Pheonix Enterprises](http://localhost/company/pheonix-enterprises/) advertising a product that they claimed would allow me to run Spectrum programs. Needless to say, they had my attention, I had already heard of Doug Dewey’s emulator board, but decided that was more than I wanted to invest at the time.

So I got on the phone and called them and talked to a [Mr. Jim Payne](http://localhost/indiv/jim-payne/). Yes, they did sell the kit, but no it didn’t plug into the cartridge port. You had to open the computer. I wasn’t too thrilled with this, but he explained that the kit was actually a simple micro chip that plugs into one of the sockets already occupied by the current ROMs.