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April 12, 2024
Losing my Sinclair ZX81/Timex 1000 virginity
Video
Okay, so my VCR doesn’t like it, but that kinda looks like a video signal to me.
Testing it out
Thoughts on the keyboard
This keyboard is notoriously bad. Worse than my Atari 400, and that’s saying something (TK Atari 400 photo).
BUT
This was designed to be CRAZY cheap. As in “I can’t afford a computer, but I can afford this” cheap. So given the cheap hardware keyboard, the token input system makes some sense. The idea was less typing, and once you figure out where stuff is, it’s not too bad. Okay, it IS bad, but it does work. Plus it does a lot of error checking for you as you go, which is nice.