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So Clive was thinking about those things years, years ahead
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The Rubber-Keyed Wonder

So Clive was thinking about those things years, years ahead and was always anxious to take...

So Clive was thinking about those things years, years ahead and was always anxious to take whatever financial success he had in any one area and start investing in his next projects

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So Clive was thinking about those things years, years ahead
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and was always anxious to take whatever
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financial success he had in any one area
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and start investing in his next projects.
Duration
19 seconds
Views
24
Timestamp in Movie
00:07:55
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
This is the newest way to tell the time - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:08
This is the newest way to tell the time
Its electronic, its moving parts digital - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:10
Its electronic, its moving parts digital
So you are sure that time is right. In - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:08
So you are sure that time is right. In
One of the suppliers pulled out, uh, which caused lots - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:10
One of the suppliers pulled out, uh, which caused lots
Very unfortunate for Sinclair - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
Very unfortunate for Sinclair
The black watch very easily got zapped - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
The black watch very easily got zapped
So if you had too much nylon in your carpet, your watch - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:10
So if you had too much nylon in your carpet, your watch
I think even getting too close to a television - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
I think even getting too close to a television
There's a problem they fixed quite soon, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
There's a problem they fixed quite soon,
A design modification was made, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:09
A design modification was made,
And this made it very, very difficult to assemble - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:10
And this made it very, very difficult to assemble
But again, when sold in kit form, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
But again, when sold in kit form,
It was a story where somebody sent back a black watch - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:23
It was a story where somebody sent back a black watch
If it was too easy to put together, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
If it was too easy to put together,
So the actual people were sort - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:09
So the actual people were sort
That was when cl thinking about doing computers quite early - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:11
That was when cl thinking about doing computers quite early
So the Mark 14 I think was a sort of almost stopgap product - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:07
So the Mark 14 I think was a sort of almost stopgap product
And there was a couple of other products around at - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:12
And there was a couple of other products around at
But really what client had been planning for years is - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:08
But really what client had been planning for years is
So back in the middle of the seventies, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:09
So back in the middle of the seventies,