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The Rubber-Keyed Wonder( 2024)

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Overview

The Rubber Keyed Wonder tells the story of the 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 that followed right the way through to the latest iteration of the system with the ZX Spectrum Next.

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      Sir Clive Sinclair

      Himself

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    A review by CinemaSerf

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    Written by CinemaSerf on Tue Jan 14 2025
    OK, so maybe a 2¼ hour documentary populated by 1980s computer nerds doesn't sound so hot, but actually for those of us of a certain ages this is really quite a fascinatingly engaging nostalgia trip. I was never into computer games as a kid, nor am I now, but my best pal at school (Paul) was what passed for an anorak back then and constantly raved about his ZX80, then a ZX81 and then the pièce de résistance with 48k memory and it's colour games - the Spectrum. That was the console that finally got us out of the local chippy which undoubtedly made much more cash from kids playing "Asteroids" tha...

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    English

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