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It's Smokin'

GeoffGeoff
edited May 2008 in Sinclair Miscellaneous
I like to start the day with one of Nick's highlighted video's and today's is a wry look at the Zee Ex Spectrum from over the pond.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2573903695511931819

Smokin' - that would be the heatsink ma'am.
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  • MrCheeseMrCheese
    edited May 2008
    Don't forget the Zeelog zee80 processor!
  • NickHNickH
    edited May 2008
    :D

    I'm *so* glad I plumped for searching Google Video rather than just YouTube - this video isn't actually hosted on either, but on CNET's website.
  • chop983chop983
    edited May 2008
    Geoff wrote: »
    I like to start the day with one of Nick's highlighted video's and today's is a wry look at the Zee Ex Spectrum from over the pond.

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2573903695511931819

    Smokin' - that would be the heatsink ma'am.

    Everything you ever wanted to know about the Ze Ex in 20 seconds
  • BloodBazBloodBaz
    edited May 2008
    chop983 wrote: »
    Everything you ever wanted to know about the Ze Ex in 20 seconds

    What do the Yanks know about the Ze Ex Spectrum? (present company accepted of course!)
    (and the Timex machines don't count :-) :-) :-) )
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited May 2008
    I just like that all these years later, in a country that didn't really have any real Speccy related goodness until after emulation.............They still managed to get a screenshot of JSW in there :D
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  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited May 2008
    BloodBaz wrote: »
    What do the Yanks know about the Ze Ex Spectrum? (present company accepted of course!)
    [strike](and the Timex machines don't count[/strike] :-) :-) :-) )

    I've only met one person here in the States who knew "something" about the Speccy ... except he didn't know it by that name ... he called it "the old Timex computer" ... and that was back in '96 ... from what I remember he told me he got it for free when he bought a subscription to a magazine (iIrc) or it may have been a gift from NPR (here in MN) after one of their donation drives.
  • WinstonWinston
    edited May 2008
    Of course we know from an Apple keynote that the Steve Jobs is a Manic Miner fan.
  • ArjunArjun
    edited May 2008
    Winston wrote: »
    Of course we know from an Apple keynote that the Steve Jobs is a Manic Miner fan.

    We do? He is? :o
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  • GrazGraz
    edited May 2008
    That's quite a sweet lil film. Well found!
  • Alcoholics AnonymousAlcoholics Anonymous
    edited May 2008
    ZnorXman wrote: »
    I've only met one person here in the States who knew "something" about the Speccy ... except he didn't know it by that name ... he called it "the old Timex computer" ... and that was back in '96 ...

    Nine times out of ten "the old Timex computer" means the TS1000. At least that's what I've found where spectrum = ts1000 comes into the minds of people who have a vague recollection of things.

    "Zeelog Zeee 80A" and "Zee X Spectrum"... it all sounds so very wrong.
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  • NickHNickH
    edited May 2008
    Graz wrote: »
    That's quite a sweet lil film. Well found!

    There's more where that came from - RssCheck (link in sig) monitors Google's Video Search (which in turn monitors a whole heap of online video archives) and reports on any new Sinclair and SAM related videos automatically. You can either use the RSS feed it generates, or subscribe to the E-mail alerts (text and HTML versions available).

    Some real gems have been found through this.
  • Paul van der LaanPaul van der Laan
    edited May 2008
    Arjun wrote: »
    We do? He is? :o

    Yup! http://type-invaders.com/misc/stevejobs-manicminer.png
  • Jumping StackJumping Stack
    edited May 2008
    Paul van der Laan wrote: »
    Yup! http://type-invaders.com/misc/stevejobs-manicminer.png

    From that evidence we must also assume that he 'is a fan of' fat smiley faces and the periodic table.
  • chop983chop983
    edited May 2008
    I'd have been more impressed if he'd been using the 6031769 cheat
  • ArjunArjun
    edited May 2008
    aowen wrote: »
    A version of Jasper repackaged as a widget for dashboard and displaying Manic Miner was on the screen behind Steve during one of his Apple presentations.

    Well, well! My respect for the man has just gone up another notch.
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  • zxbrunozxbruno
    edited May 2008
    Alcoholics Anonymous wrote: »
    Nine times out of ten "the old Timex computer" means the TS1000. At least that's what I've found where spectrum = ts1000 comes into the minds of people who have a vague recollection of things.

    That's something that I always found odd. Most people don't remember it, and from the few who still do most of them seem to be much older than the average Spectrum user.
    Alcoholics Anonymous wrote: »
    "Zeelog Zeee 80A" and "Zee X Spectrum"... it all sounds so very wrong.

    I don't blame them. I pronounced it like that until Death corrected me last year.
  • LockettLockett
    edited May 2008
    I always pronounced it "Zill-log". Is that the right way?
  • Alcoholics AnonymousAlcoholics Anonymous
    edited May 2008
    zxbruno wrote: »
    I don't blame them. I pronounced it like that until Death corrected me last year.

    I thought continental Europe learned UK english?

    I pronounce it "Z-eye-log", which makes it the correct pronunciation :)
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  • gasmangasman
    edited May 2008
    Reminds me of something that was pointed out to me on one of my Czech / Slovak / Polish trips - when they all got their Spectrums as children, it never really occurred to them that the Basic keywords they were programming with were supposed to roughly correspond to English-language words. (Which is fair enough when you think about it... the use of English in Basic is just bizarre. What has 'for' got to do with looping? Okay, it sort of makes sense in mathematical terminology, but not to an 8-year-old, especially one whose first language isn't English...)

    As a result, they always read and pronounced them as if they were Czech words. Which is why the correct pronunciation of Poke (of DigiSID fame)'s handle is 'pok-kay'...
  • JuanF. RamirezJuanF. Ramirez
    edited May 2008
    zxbruno wrote: »
    I don't blame them. I pronounced it like that until Death corrected me last year.

    I have a trascendental big problem! ;) How is the correct pronunciation of ZX in english?
  • zxbrunozxbruno
    edited May 2008
    "Zed-ex", I think, which reminds me of Zed from the Police Academy. :D

    @AA: We where taught British English in school, but the ZX Spectrum wasn't part of it. :)

    Spanish and Portuguese read letters independently if there's no vowels in between. That's why 'Zee-X Spectrum' sounds better to us. The Spanish, for example, say 'Sétta Éckeess Spectroom', or something. :p
  • psj3809psj3809
    edited May 2008
    zxbruno wrote: »
    "Zed-ex", I think, which reminds me of Zed from the Police Academy. :D

    @AA: We where taught British English in school, but the ZX Spectrum wasn't part of it. :)

    Spanish and Portuguese read letters independently if there's no vowels in between. That's why 'Zee-X Spectrum' sounds better to us. The Spanish, for example, say 'S?tta ?ckeess Spectroom', or something. :p

    100% Zed-Ex !

    Zee-ex would sound like something from America as they say Zee not Zed.
  • Alcoholics AnonymousAlcoholics Anonymous
    edited May 2008
    psj3809 wrote: »
    Zee-ex would sound like something from America as they say Zee not Zed.

    Yeah, "zee" is only used in the USA. Every other english speaker says "zed", which is why I was surprised you (zxbruno) say "zee".
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  • LockettLockett
    edited May 2008
    Alcoholics Anonymous wrote: »
    Yeah, "zee" is only used in the USA. Every other english speaker says "zed", which is why I was surprised you (zxbruno) say "zee".

    Said to the guy who has "Location: Santa Ana, CA, USA" next to all of his posts.
  • zxbrunozxbruno
    edited May 2008
    I live in the US, but I'm Portuguese. :)
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