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Not sure I agree having had them. The keyboards instantly remind how both are horrible to use and that is the overwhelming memory.
by timc3 2y ago
Not sure I agree having had them. The keyboards instantly remind how both are horrible to use and that is the overwhelming memory.
- wslh 2y ago> The keyboards instantly remind how both are horrible to use and that is the overwhelming memory. The keyboard was cost effective. We need to remember that constraints exist.
- NomDePlum 2y agoAnd also an upgrade on the ZX81 which was far more basic. Long time ago but if memory serves it was some sort of membrane to indicate key positions which you had to press fairly hard to get to work.
- ndsipa_pomu 2y agoThe infamous thump-sensitive keyboard
- KingOfCoders 2y agoMy memory on the Sinclairs is their keyboards too, horrible, that was the reason I didn't take them serious as a kid (they felt like a Fisher toy), used a ViC20 in a department store to learn coding and then bought an Amstrad CPC - mostly because of the 80 character screen vs. the C64.
- sourcepluck 2y ago> used a ViC20 in a department store to learn coding How long did you spend in that department store? How did you charm the personnel into letting you keep at it?
- KingOfCoders 2y agoThe personnel didn't bother with us, they didn't know why the computers where there. Sometimes we even made a joke, coding a 5 minute delay, then some loud sound, turning sound up, blocking RUNSTOP/RESTORE and then waited behind some clothes until the computers started very loud sounds and the personnel didn't know how to turn them off.
- Jare 2y agoAnother department store squatter here along with my brother. It was crazy to think this is how we learned to program, but it made sense at the time. We went for the ZX Spectrum and eventually wrote our first commercial game for it [1] with the rubber keyboard, it never bothered me. [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgi6gndpTTs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgi6gndpTTs
- KingOfCoders 2y agoLove it!
- rganesan 2y agoI had ZX Spectrum+ which I think had a much better keyboard. I never used the original ZX Spectrum with rubber keys, so I can't really compare.