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Yes. Horrible keyboard. As in really bad. Having used my cousin's ZX, I was glad I was brought up on Acorn kit..

• protomyth 12y ago
  Well, it was better than the Atari 400 I learned to program on. I dearly wish I could have bought a replacement keyboard like the Sinclair folks could.
  • cssmoo 12y ago
    I just googled one of those and my word that's a mile more horrible! I'd rather have used a typewriter than one of those ones.
    • protomyth 12y ago
      It was cheap and had Jay Miner's chips in it. It was my road to programming, but I do agree, typing was a major hassle. I later had some problems with my fingertips.
  • scholia 12y ago
    It didn't think it was all that bad, and you could easily wipe it down. Given the ease of cartridge loading games, it was a great machine for toddlers..... ;-)
    • protomyth 12y ago
      I wish I could claim to be a toddler when it came out. :(
      • scholia 12y ago
        Me too, but my son was born in 1985 ;-)
  • honestcoyote 12y ago
    You could. There was a keyboard kit for the 400 and I remember it being decent. But the kit may not have been very well known.
    • protomyth 12y ago
      If it wasn't advertised in Antic, Byte, Creative Computing, or Dr. Dobbs then I wouldn't of heard about it.