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The Rubber-Keyed Wonder (2024)
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- So I was like 1110 in 79. when things like the Atari 2,600 w...
- MK 14 was a, uh, a build it yourself fun thing with a differ...
- It was a story where somebody sent back a black watch. and t...
- And it sold incredibly well. From an engineering point of vi...
- So Alan Sugar used to turn up at the Sinclair office, he wou...
- So he'd buy these transistors for next to nothing, And then...
- And this made it very, very difficult to assemble. because t...
- You got involved in the assembly process. and you've got a m...
- It was a matchbox size radio. and it took him a while to com...
- Very unfortunate for Sinclair. because they sold a huge amou...
- So you've got this little display here, which is actually th...
- People wanted to know what was he gonna say, what was he gon...
- So Clive was thinking about those things years, years ahead....
- I knew what computers were, I didn't understand. how they wo...
- And as it happened, you know, it was a full six months. afte...
- He played poker and cards a little bit, but um, didn't have...
- So these things were quite big. to have the pocket calculato...
- And, you know, he could read that style of book like a novel...
- It seemed to me that the prices then being charged were such...
- Later on, When I first met Clive, it was obvious immediately...
- And there was a couple of other products around at. that tim...
- And then that extraordinary change happening. because it was...
- So you had to make them. with cheaper components if you coul...
- What you without face, you look so young. Yeah, 1969.
- PLA always had a very strong preference for mail order.