Editing Acorn Electron (section)

====Software Bargains Plus 1====
In mid-1989, Software Bargains announced an expansion providing different levels of Plus 1 functionality, offered as a bare printed circuit board without casing and in three different variants: the basic model offered one cartridge port and was bundled with View and Viewsheet cartridges for £29.95; an extended model offered one cartridge port and a printer port with the two bundled cartridges for £36.95; the full model offered two cartridge ports, printer port and the bundled cartridges for £39.95. Various board upgrade options were also offered between the variants, with the product being described mainly as a vehicle to expose the bundled software packages to as many as 150,000 owners of the estimated 200,000 Electrons in the UK who "have not yet been able to acquire or use View or Viewsheet".<ref name="electronuser198908sb">{{ cite magazine | url=https://archive.org/details/ElectronUserVolume6/Electron-User-06-11/page/n4/mode/1up | title=Business boost for the Electron | magazine=Electron User | volume=6 | issue=11 | date=August 1989 | access-date=23 January 2021 | page=5 }}</ref> The lack of casing was considered the most significant disadvantage, with the absence of the analogue port deemed less critical due to a general lack of support for joysticks in many games.<ref name="electronuser198910_sb">{{ cite magazine | url=https://archive.org/details/ElectronUserVolume7/Electron-User-07-01/page/n28/mode/1up | title=An offer you can't refuse | magazine=Electron User | date=October 1989 | access-date=28 October 2022 | last1=Waddilove | first1=Roland | pages=29 }}</ref>