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> QL-looking for the Spectrum I was going to object, but probably right to just skip the horror of the true Spectrum keyboard.
by shellac 1y ago
> QL-looking for the Spectrum
I was going to object, but probably right to just skip the horror of the true Spectrum keyboard.
- zeristor 1y agoMaybe they meant the ZX Spectrum II, known to some as “The Toaster” for some reason. Rubber keyboard, I heard it referred to as dead-flesh. It put me off computing for a few years, that and all the bloody modes for different keywords.
- lproven 1y agoYou are mixing up several different computers here. > Maybe they meant the ZX Spectrum II No. There was never never a "Spectrum II". The second model after the original 16K and 48K was the ZX Spectrum Plus, in a keyboard derived from the 1984 Sinclair QL design. http://www.retro8bitcomputers.co.uk/Sinclair/ZXSpectrumPlus http://www.retro8bitcomputers.co.uk/Sinclair/ZXSpectrumPlus Then the 3rd model was the ZX Spectrum 128, in the same keyboard, but with more ports and a large external heatsink. https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/2584/sinclair-zx-spectrum-128/ https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/2584/sinclair-zx-spe... > known to some as “The Toaster” for some reason. Nope. The 128 was known as the "toastrack" for the heatsink. > Rubber keyboard, I heard it referred to as dead-flesh. Not since the Plus model, no. After the 128, Amstrad bought the brand. It launched the ZX Spectrum +2 and +3. https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/3648/Sinclair-ZX-Spectrum-2/ https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/3648/Sinclair-ZX-Spe... https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/509/Sinclair-ZX-Spectrum-3/ https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/509/Sinclair-ZX-Spec... Those are the closest to the nonexistent model number "II" but they do not have the QL-derived keyboard.