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Weird Home Made ZX81 Keyboard spotted on Ebay.

murtcepsmurtceps
edited October 2009 in Sinclair Miscellaneous
Just spotted this on French Ebay, from my (very) limited French, it seems to be a ZX81 board in a home made keyboard.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180422086595&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:GB:1123

I think he says something about there not being two in the world. This then is R@re .
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  • Dave FountainDave Fountain
    edited October 2009
    That looks like something out of a Russian nuclear power plant.... not that I'd know, I was told an Etch-A-Sketch has more controls than anything in a Russian nuclear power plant.
  • psj3809psj3809
    edited October 2009
    I'm not great at making things but that keyboard is ugly as anything ! Terrible effort !
  • ZX81 CollectionZX81 Collection
    edited October 2009
    About as impressive as the music produced by said country.

    ZX81 Collection
    http://zx81.atspace.com
  • lordsnootylordsnooty
    edited October 2009
    Were these custom-built '81 houses a common thing back in the day? In about 1984 or thereabouts I remember going to a friend's house and he showed me a computer his dad had apparently brought home from work, it was a ZX81 but it was in a proper plastic house like this with fully-moving keys. I suppose these were the kit versions?
  • beanzbeanz
    edited October 2009
    Bah...here is a better one on EBay USA....WOOD GRAIN...


    http://cgi.ebay.com/VTG-1982-TIMEX-SINCLAIR-1000-custom-computer-w-RAM_W0QQitemZ280411879446QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item4149d9b816
  • rokoroko
    edited October 2009
    lordsnooty wrote: »
    Were these custom-built '81 houses a common thing back in the day? (...) I suppose these were the kit versions?
    Yes they were rather common at least in NL, no they were not necessarily kit versions.
    What the home-built had in common were gigantic dimensions. I have not seen a wooden one for a long time now.
    Here below a laughter proof ZX80(!) extended with a non-detachable true type keyboard.....
    ZX80-kl.jpg
    This kind of gear probably is the reason why the space invaders wanted to attack us in those days.
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