ZX811 Keyboard

Contributed by AHOW Day at Ipswich Museum

This was one of many items brought to the BBC Suffolk event at Ipswich Museum on Tuesday, 16 February, 2010.

Made in the U.K in the 1980's, this is an example of what the early personal computers were like.

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  • 1. At 00:53 on 4 March 2010, Ken wrote:

    OK, a few issues here. Firstly this is not a ZX811 'keyboard', but in fact a ZX Spectrum personal computer. It probably has either 16 or 48k of memory and, when first turned on, runs on Sinclair BASIC. The ZX81 was the predecessor to the Spectrum. I'm guessing this contributor hasn't heard of Manic Miner or Chuckie Egg....

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