THE STORY OF THE SINCLAIR ZX SPECTRUM
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When Davide Gatti proposed that I create an insert for a video on his channel @SurvivalHacking where he repaired and put a Sinclair ZX Spectrum back into operation, I immediately understood that I was embarking on an undertaking that would have no other result than the video we are offering you today. In order to correctly tell what this little home computer was, what it represented and how it was possible for the little #zxspectrum to fight against the king of home computers, the infamous #commodore64, in the epic computer war of the 80s, it is necessary to apply a particular method in the study of the history of computing, which is that of contextualization. You cannot understand events and market dynamics of any product without knowing the context in which they occurred, and unfortunately, as far as the history of computing is concerned, this is even more complex given the speed of change and evolution of these technologies in those years. We will discover together many events and many curiosities, from the companies that produced official versions of the ZX Spectrum, such as an unexpected SAMSUNG, to the diffusion of this small computer worldwide in countries such as India, Brazil and the USSR. So get ready because it will be a challenging and quite long episode but I hope also very interesting, enjoy the show! 0:00 Theme song 0:09 Introduction 4:22 Computer science in 1982 6:36 Sinclair's idea: ZX80 and ZX81 10:38 The birth of the Home Computer market: VIC20 12:17 The target audiences 14:51 The agreement with TIMEX 16:53 The successor ZX82 and the birth of the ZX Spectrum 30:12 The video game market 35:04 Peripherals 38:17 ZX Interface 1, ZX Net and multiplayer games 40:19 The infamous Microdrives 42:56 ZX Interface 2 and cartridge games 47:46 1984 and the decline of Sinclair 52:02 The ZX Spectrum 128k 53:50 The spread of the ZX Spectrum in the world, the clones 56:29 The Timex Spectrums 57:51 Samsung Spectrums 59:54 Decibel, the DB Spectrum in India 1:00:57 Czerweny, the CZ Spectrum in Argentina 1:01:36 The unofficial clones, South America and Eastern Europe 1:02:58 Final conclusions and greetings Video by Davide Gatti on the repair of a ZX Spectrum+: • SH177 - I REPAIR a SPECTRUM -- Website: http://www.archeologiainformatica.it Audio Podcast: https://goo.gl/Mepvfw Facebook Page: https://goo.gl/vkYzKQ Facebook Group: https://goo.gl/kRXojD Telegram Channel: https://t.me/archeologiainformatica Runtime Radio Facebook Page: https://goo.gl/WFNwrU Email: mailto://[email protected]
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