♪ And if you wanna program this thing, you're programming in machine...
Play this sound clip or download.
From the Soundboard:
The Rubber-Keyed Wonder (2024)
Explore Full Soundboard
90 sounds • 15 plays
Top Sounds from The Rubber-Keyed Wonder (2024)
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.
...and 65 more sounds