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In the end, I bought another keyboard for the spectrum
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The Rubber-Keyed Wonder

In the end, I bought another keyboard for the spectrum and threw the rubber keyboard away...

In the end, I bought another keyboard for the spectrum and threw the rubber keyboard away and, and the circuit board from the spectrum can of lay right inside the other keyboard, which gave it a lot of room

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In the end, I bought another keyboard for the spectrum
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and threw the rubber keyboard away and,
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and the circuit board from the spectrum can of lay right
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inside the other keyboard, which gave it a lot of room.
Duration
14 seconds
Views
24
Timestamp in Movie
00:57:47
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
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.
So the advantage of having your work on another machine - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:17
So the advantage of having your work on another machine
It was a block of memory, a block of screen memory, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
It was a block of memory, a block of screen memory,
Here's a fast processor, off you go. That was it. - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:05
Here's a fast processor, off you go. That was it.
So you had to fashion everything from those raw - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:09
So you had to fashion everything from those raw
Technically, all those limitations allowed people like me - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:08
Technically, all those limitations allowed people like me
I always knew the computers for, for having fun - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:07
I always knew the computers for, for having fun
By the time the Sinclair Spectrum arrived, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:07
By the time the Sinclair Spectrum arrived,
They were for only one thing - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:05
They were for only one thing
Of course, not only did we have moving stuff on a little - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:07
Of course, not only did we have moving stuff on a little
This was a toy shop just like Austin Wells must have felt - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:07
This was a toy shop just like Austin Wells must have felt
And if this was gonna be my Austin Wells moment, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
And if this was gonna be my Austin Wells moment,
I thought, yeah, we can do this now We've got a Sinclair 48 - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:09
I thought, yeah, we can do this now We've got a...
So I feel I could make movies in 1982. Oh boy. - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:07
So I feel I could make movies in 1982. Oh boy.
Now I'd seen a couple of three D games on the ZX 81, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:10
Now I'd seen a couple of three D games on the ZX 81,
And I thought you could do this with the kind - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:08
And I thought you could do this with the kind
And I thought, ah, if I do a game that's like Star Wars, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
And I thought, ah, if I do a game that's like Star...