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The Rubber-Keyed Wonder

And when you're loading from Tate, there are lots of signals coming through

And when you're loading from Tate, there are lots of signals coming through

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And when you're loading from Tate, there are lots
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of signals coming through.
Duration
6 seconds
Views
25
Timestamp in Movie
00:33:10
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
And the spectrum we found, if you fed that through - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:09
And the spectrum we found, if you fed that through
This was all about getting into the hands of people - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:10
This was all about getting into the hands of people
Our object is to find people's real needs - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:09
Our object is to find people's real needs
And to do that at a price that they can afford to do - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:07
And to do that at a price that they can afford to do
And I have to say I was blown away by the popularity. - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
And I have to say I was blown away by the popularity.
Clive had offered that first thousand people - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:08
Clive had offered that first thousand people
But it wasn't just the volume of interest, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
But it wasn't just the volume of interest,
They enthused about the Zuck - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:05
They enthused about the Zuck
But what amazed us was they knew - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:07
But what amazed us was they knew
It had been a secret the day before, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
It had been a secret the day before,
The release of the spectrum changed the nature - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:13
The release of the spectrum changed the nature
But with the spectrum, all of a sudden you had kind - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:07
But with the spectrum, all of a sudden you had kind
The look of the spectrum really was driven by necessity - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:11
The look of the spectrum really was driven by necessity
So the Commodore 64, which did look like a proper computer, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:13
So the Commodore 64, which did look like a proper computer,
And I think as a result of this necessity, they actually, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:14
And I think as a result of this necessity, they actually,
I remember just being really struck - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
I remember just being really struck
I've always loved things that look like the future, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:15
I've always loved things that look like the future,
So the ZX spectrum for me was a revelation - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:12
So the ZX spectrum for me was a revelation
I sort of never understood what that was for, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:10
I sort of never understood what that was for,
Five worried a great deal about how things looked. - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
Five worried a great deal about how things looked.