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The Rubber-Keyed Wonder

And he would try to buy chips from the few British manufacturers who were still making...

And he would try to buy chips from the few British manufacturers who were still making chips like Ferranti Ferranti were really benefiting from the success of the ZX 81

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And he would try to buy
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chips from the few British manufacturers
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who were still making chips like Ferranti
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Ferranti were really benefiting from the success
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of the ZX 81.
Duration
16 seconds
Views
26
Timestamp in Movie
00:29:39
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
You know, they were selling their ULA in in volumes - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:08
You know, they were selling their ULA in in volumes
And they were determined to bend over backwards - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:11
And they were determined to bend over backwards
He wanted to do something for high technology in Britain. - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:07
He wanted to do something for high technology in Britain.
He wanted manufacturing to be done in Scotland, which it was - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:09
He wanted manufacturing to be done in Scotland, which it was
It was only with reluctance - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:12
It was only with reluctance
The spectrum compared - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:11
The spectrum compared
So that needed different hardware, it needed extra software - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:10
So that needed different hardware, it needed extra software
So that meant - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:12
So that meant
So one of the reasons that we decided - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:09
So one of the reasons that we decided
Human vision can resolve - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:08
Human vision can resolve
And the PAL TV system took advantage of that so that the, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:11
And the PAL TV system took advantage of that so that the,
And we also knew at that time that the Oracle - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:08
And we also knew at that time that the Oracle
They set color per character, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
They set color per character,
So that was the background - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:09
So that was the background
The spectrum was made by some, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
The spectrum was made by some,
It was, um, what would give our features in a minimal sort - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:08
It was, um, what would give our features in a minimal sort
We could have gone for hardware sprites, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:14
We could have gone for hardware sprites,
We could have gone for something that approximates - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:09
We could have gone for something that approximates
Think of the additional chips that would be needed - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:07
Think of the additional chips that would be needed
So it used cassette tapes for storing programs - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:09
So it used cassette tapes for storing programs