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There were these little gizmos which were going
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The Rubber-Keyed Wonder

There were these little gizmos which were going to be like disc drives and they had tiny...

There were these little gizmos which were going to be like disc drives and they had tiny little cartridges that you could put in, but I had so much frustration in trying to make them work

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There were these little gizmos which were going
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to be like disc drives
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and they had tiny little cartridges that you could put in,
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but I had so much frustration in trying to make them work.
Duration
12 seconds
Views
28
Timestamp in Movie
00:57:05
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
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.
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,