Date : Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:43:16 +0100
From : muzerakascooby@... (Muzer)
Subject: Electric Dreams last night.
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Rick Murray wrote:
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> Why was the Speccy so small? Didn't Sinclair have a larger one with
> built-in tape and joystick? My memory is really fuzzy here, I only
> remember a gaudy coloured keyboard on a black machine, and a tendency to
> spit lines of coloured garbage onto the screen, which I believe is a
> mostly-Spectrum trait...?
That was after Amstrad had taken over the company; the Sinclair ZX
Spectrum +2. I have one. Presumably by "built-in [...] joystick" you
mean joystick interface...
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> [...]
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