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spectrum in netflix bomb and the cold war documentary

hillelrhillelr
in Sinclair Miscellaneous
Hi
i am just watching the great documentary about the cold war in netflix
and i just saw the zx spectrum there in a bit about cia sending communication equipment to polish solidarity.
its on episode six 16:00 after start.
who knew that the zx spectrum could be a spying communication eqiupment :)

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  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    I knew those weird sequential beeps my Speccy would make when it crashed sometimes were coded messages!
    Every night is curry night!
  • dmsmithdmsmith
    edited April 6
    The loading sounds themselves sounded like a secret code sometimes. Eventually I could tell if a block of zeros was loading, also the sound of attributes when the screen was loading always had a distinctive sound, probably to do with all the bytes being within a certain range of values.
    Post edited by dmsmith on
  • zxbrunozxbruno
    A couple years ago someone posted an article about pirate TV broadcasts in Poland in the 1980s. I can't remember if they said they used a Spectrum or a Timex computer, but it was part of the equipment.

    Regarding the loading sounds, I too have specific sounds stuck in my memory. The first 6144, the attributes, the system variables and the UDGs between 65368 and 65535.
  • zxbrunozxbruno
    edited April 7
    Found it: https://idlewords.com/2007/04/tv_solidarity.htm

    edit: I shouldn't call it Pirate TV, since it was an overlay. But it's an interesting read.
    Post edited by zxbruno on
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