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Review. Personal Computing News 3 November 1983 page 46 John
Lettice welcomes a centronics interface for the Jupiter Ace and
Sinclair Spectrum  It all ADS up now ust a few months ago the
Sinclair Spectrum and the Jupiter Ace were pretty lonely
machines. It was difficult to link them to a wide range of
peripherals because of the dearth of interfaces. While there
were some interfaces available for the Spectrum, Ace owners must
certainly have been feeling aggrieved at the lack of support
their machine was getting. The Spectrum, of course, has had a
run of excellent interfacing devices recently, courtesy of
Sinclair Research. The launch of the ADS Centronics Interface
also means that the Ace, if not coming in from the cold, has at
least been thrown a pair of gloves. The ADS comes in two
versions, the straight interface for the Spectrum, which plugs
firmly into the edge connector and will drive any Centronics
printer, and the slightly more complicated versi