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The Rubber-Keyed Wonder

And the way this was packaged in the small box with this manual, everything you needed...

And the way this was packaged in the small box with this manual, everything you needed just plug it into your tv fitted that bill the case

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And the way this was packaged in the small box
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with this manual, everything you needed just plug it into
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your tv fitted that bill the case.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
34
Timestamp in Movie
00:24:44
Uploaded
Apr 11, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Gracious Films

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Movie Summary

Sinclair ZX Spectrum. This film goes into all the finer details of how and why the ZX Spectrum was created, what impact the computer had as well as the various versions
Now we've got something that looks actually really nice. - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:05
Now we've got something that looks actually really...
It's still small, it's still got the same kind of keyboard, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:09
It's still small, it's still got the same kind of...
These were in boxes on the shelves in W eight Smiths - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
These were in boxes on the shelves in W eight Smiths
And people were picking up those boxes - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:05
And people were picking up those boxes
So when you opened that box, you wanted to see something - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:13
So when you opened that box, you wanted to see something
And an awful lot of people have started - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:11
And an awful lot of people have started
The same with Spectrum. And the point was the price point - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:14
The same with Spectrum. And the point was the price point
Clive Sinclair, I didn't really know anything about him, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:12
Clive Sinclair, I didn't really know anything about...
So eventually I went, yeah, okay, that I can afford. - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
So eventually I went, yeah, okay, that I can afford.
So we were all just beginning to get into this whole idea - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:08
So we were all just beginning to get into this whole idea
I like to talk when I give speeches about what that meant - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:16
I like to talk when I give speeches about what that meant
It was such an enormous leap - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:11
It was such an enormous leap
But then I show them the eBay logo - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:07
But then I show them the eBay logo
And so in the space of that eBay logo, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
And so in the space of that eBay logo,
We looked at what everybody else was doing - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:11
We looked at what everybody else was doing
So we were never stymied by can't be done. - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
So we were never stymied by can't be done.
XX 80 and the XX 81 gave rise to that scene - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:10
XX 80 and the XX 81 gave rise to that scene
So when the ZX 81 was launched, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:05
So when the ZX 81 was launched,
Um, we knew that sales were going well, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:08
Um, we knew that sales were going well,
And you have to remember that we'd launched two - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
And you have to remember that we'd launched two