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My feeling about the QL was that Clive really wanted
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The Rubber-Keyed Wonder

My feeling about the QL was that Clive really wanted to come up with a serious business...

My feeling about the QL was that Clive really wanted to come up with a serious business computer and he felt the combination of a more powerful microprocessor addressing more memory and the micro drives made it a business platform

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My feeling about the QL was that Clive really wanted
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to come up with a serious business computer
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and he felt the combination
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of a more powerful microprocessor addressing more memory
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and the micro drives made it a business platform.
Duration
15 seconds
Views
28
Timestamp in Movie
01:43:29
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, if I took away anything from that, I did sense - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:07
You know, if I took away anything from that, I did sense
There was a strong feeling of wanting - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
There was a strong feeling of wanting
We had the qr, but we also had a laptop. - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:05
We had the qr, but we also had a laptop.
We had Pandora various sort - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
We had Pandora various sort
We don't wanna waste time among the, the spectrum is boring, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:23
We don't wanna waste time among the, the spectrum is...
There was so much competition - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:07
There was so much competition
I was hiring people to work on current projects - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:10
I was hiring people to work on current projects
And the next minute I find out Clive had had a few beers - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:11
And the next minute I find out Clive had had a few beers
He'd hired all these engineers, innovators - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:09
He'd hired all these engineers, innovators
It was gonna cost us and fundamentally everything, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:07
It was gonna cost us and fundamentally everything,
The main thrust of Meta Lab is now, um, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:08
The main thrust of Meta Lab is now, um,
We have a, a massive program there - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:07
We have a, a massive program there
Um, semiconductor technology, um, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:09
Um, semiconductor technology, um,
The other areas that were working in there, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:07
The other areas that were working in there,
It really was chaos - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:08
It really was chaos
And the resources you could have commanded to maintain - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:08
And the resources you could have commanded to maintain
They'd been earmarked for more exciting things - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:11
They'd been earmarked for more exciting things
They needed a spectrum with more memory they needed, oh, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:10
They needed a spectrum with more memory they needed, oh,
And so we did start rather belatedly - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:08
And so we did start rather belatedly
Yeah, we should have, it's a matter - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:07
Yeah, we should have, it's a matter