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The Rubber-Keyed Wonder

I think Sinclair was still at the stage of the product lifecycle, which all products have,...

I think Sinclair was still at the stage of the product lifecycle, which all products have, where it was still being really targeted at the people who don't really mind if it works

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I think
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Sinclair was still at the stage of the product lifecycle,
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which all products have, where it was still being
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really targeted at the people
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who don't really mind if it works.
Duration
17 seconds
Views
30
Timestamp in Movie
00:55:23
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 this stage of product lifecycle - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:07
And this stage of product lifecycle
And when he was targeting those people, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
And when he was targeting those people,
Developing gamers on the Sinclair spectrum in the early - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:09
Developing gamers on the Sinclair spectrum in the early
I has a 48 K spectrum with dual ZX micro drives - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:10
I has a 48 K spectrum with dual ZX micro drives
Yeah, these little micro drive cassettes which had this - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:09
Yeah, these little micro drive cassettes which had this
It had the right capacity, it had the right speed, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:13
It had the right capacity, it had the right speed,
It's actually surprising how reliable they were, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:07
It's actually surprising how reliable they were,
The carts he put in, either you got a, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:09
The carts he put in, either you got a,
If it doesn't go from one reel to another, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
If it doesn't go from one reel to another,
So it has to slip past itself so that there has - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:09
So it has to slip past itself so that there has
There were these little gizmos which were going - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:12
There were these little gizmos which were going
But they went back to Sinclair - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:07
But they went back to Sinclair
One of the other problems we used - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:08
One of the other problems we used
I heard of people kind of standing a glass - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
I heard of people kind of standing a glass
We used to use fans in the office for a while, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:10
We used to use fans in the office for a while,
In the end, I bought another keyboard for the spectrum - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:14
In the end, I bought another keyboard for the spectrum
So the rubber keys didn't last sort - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:05
So the rubber keys didn't last sort
This is the spectrum that an attack, zombie. Zombie. - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:05
This is the spectrum that an attack, zombie. Zombie.
And if the mask was written on - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:14
And if the mask was written on
That was a way for me to connect the softie to the spectrum. - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
That was a way for me to connect the softie to the spectrum.