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    Any Excuse Is Good to Post the ZX Spectrum

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    Image of Monty Monty
    05/14/09

    In reply to Any Excuse Is Good to Post the ZX Spectrum
    Just think of the fond memories we will have in twenty years when we see photos of the joyous devices we type on Gizmodo right now.


    There were still a couple of these around Selfridges and other stores when I was in high school. I admit that I was lucky enough to start with a VIC-20 instead, but there was always something appealing about a keyboard where you press three different keys simultaneously and it saves you two keystrokes by typing the word for you.

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    Image of Serolf Divad Serolf Divad
    05/14/09

    In reply to Any Excuse Is Good to Post the ZX Spectrum
    ZX81, baby. That's what introduced me into computing, along with it's full 1K of RAM.
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    Image of General Halfshaftery General Halfshaftery
    05/14/09

    In reply to Any Excuse Is Good to Post the ZX Spectrum
    Reminds me of my old Timex Sinclair i used to crash financial markets and usher in the deep recession of 1981-82.
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    Image of fuchikoma fuchikoma
    05/14/09

    @General Halfshaftery:

    When I was a few years old, my dad got our first household computer, a Timex Sinclair 1000... years later I tracked down a working one at a garage sale and actually programmed it a bit. Good times...
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    Image of TNTBW TNTBW
    05/14/09

    In reply to Any Excuse Is Good to Post the ZX Spectrum
    Was it just a keyboard, or did it do something special?
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    Image of Barry99705 Barry99705
    05/14/09

    @TNTBW: That's the whole computer.
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    Image of fate47 - Meh. fate47 - Meh.
    05/14/09

    @Barry99705: So, which part is the display?
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    Image of Rabid Penguin Rabid Penguin
    05/14/09

    @fate47 shops smart, shops S-Mart: It has video out. You plug it into a monitor just like any other computer.
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