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The Rubber-Keyed Wonder

Yeah, these little micro drive cassettes which had this endlessly of tape going inside...

Yeah, these little micro drive cassettes which had this endlessly of tape going inside them. The Micro drive was inexpensive attached to the spectrum

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Yeah, these little micro drive cassettes which had this
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endlessly of tape going inside them. The
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Micro drive was inexpensive attached to the spectrum.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
24
Timestamp in Movie
00:56:07
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
It had the right capacity, it had the right speed, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:13
It had the right capacity, it had the right speed,
It's actually surprising how reliable they were, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:07
It's actually surprising how reliable they were,
The carts he put in, either you got a, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:09
The carts he put in, either you got a,
If it doesn't go from one reel to another, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
If it doesn't go from one reel to another,
So it has to slip past itself so that there has - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:09
So it has to slip past itself so that there has
There were these little gizmos which were going - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:12
There were these little gizmos which were going
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