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The Rubber-Keyed Wonder

So we decided we needed color, we needed high resolution graphics, we needed sound and we...

So we decided we needed color, we needed high resolution graphics, we needed sound and we needed something of a moving key keyboard

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So we decided we needed color,
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we needed high resolution graphics, we needed sound
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and we needed something of a moving key keyboard.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
27
Timestamp in Movie
00:28:45
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 those were the basic specifications regarding the name. - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:05
So those were the basic specifications regarding the name.
I think probably everybody assumed it would be ZX - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
I think probably everybody assumed it would be ZX
But we quickly realized that we were making a rod - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:10
But we quickly realized that we were making a rod
So we needed a name that would - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:08
So we needed a name that would
Clive came up with a much more scientific technological - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:16
Clive came up with a much more scientific technological
He would do anything he could not - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:08
He would do anything he could not
And he would try to buy - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:16
And he would try to buy
You know, they were selling their ULA in in volumes - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:08
You know, they were selling their ULA in in volumes
And they were determined to bend over backwards - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:11
And they were determined to bend over backwards
He wanted to do something for high technology in Britain. - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:07
He wanted to do something for high technology in Britain.
He wanted manufacturing to be done in Scotland, which it was - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:09
He wanted manufacturing to be done in Scotland, which it was
It was only with reluctance - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:12
It was only with reluctance
The spectrum compared - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:11
The spectrum compared
So that needed different hardware, it needed extra software - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:10
So that needed different hardware, it needed extra software
So that meant - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:12
So that meant
So one of the reasons that we decided - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:09
So one of the reasons that we decided
Human vision can resolve - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:08
Human vision can resolve
And the PAL TV system took advantage of that so that the, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:11
And the PAL TV system took advantage of that so that the,
And we also knew at that time that the Oracle - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:08
And we also knew at that time that the Oracle
They set color per character, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
They set color per character,