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From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: Nostalgia and computers (Off SR Subject)
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 13:05:34 +0100
Paul J. Adam said on 0:34/ 6 Dec 96...

> Just a flat membrane keyboard, not even the Flexy Bendy Floppy rubber
> "keyboard" of the Spectrum. You think the Spectrum+ was bad, the
> original Spectrum's keyboard was a one-piece soft rubber moulding under
> a stamped mask in the casing.

Yeah, though I never owned one, I have used on once or twice... Anyone who
doesn't know what we're talking about, take a look at a pocket calculator
that has those soft, plastic keys, and imagine that for a computer
keyboard :)

> >Why do I have this feeling you've plugged it into your TV recently? :)
>
> Lost the power supply for it about ten years ago, sadly...

Bugger... Unfortunately, I sold my Spectrum (a 128, by then) several years
ago so I can't use it anymore either :(

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