A couple weeks ago I "discovered" a docudrama called Micro Men.
I believe that the ZX Spectrum made a cameo appearance.

Micro Men (2009) - a story about the rivalry betwen Sinclair
and Acorn computers in the UK during the PC goldrush of the
80's:

https://youtu.be/XXBxV6-zamM

Definitely worth a watch. I watched it yeeears ago when it first came out.
And yes, halt and catch fire is good, especially season 1. It started getting
a bit silly in s2/s3 but still watchable.

Cheers,
Al


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.... And yes, halt and catch fire is good, especially season 1. It
started getting a bit silly in s2/s3 but still watchable.

Not sure how I missed this, but it sounds pretty interesting.

Thanks for the heads-up :)

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I feel the same way about getting a Speak N Spell that works... I have
one (from my childhood) but the power supply I think failed on the board and I have no way of knowing how to repair it... not really the skills
to do so. :(

Theres a lot of info out there about repairing (and even bending/modifying) the speak n spell... sure you'd need to break out the sauder iron, but I bet one could learn that machine fairly easy. Heck, with Youtube, you can just follow along almost. :P

If I owned one I'd have to crack it open and try to get her talking again. :P



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On 19 Jun 2021 at 11:39a, paulie420 pondered and said...

I feel the same way about getting a Speak N Spell that works... I hav one (from my childhood) but the power supply I think failed on the bo and I have no way of knowing how to repair it... not really the skill to do so. :(

Theres a lot of info out there about repairing (and even bending/modifying) the speak n spell... sure you'd need to break out the sauder iron, but I bet one could learn that machine fairly easy. Heck, with Youtube, you can just follow along almost. :P
If I owned one I'd have to crack it open and try to get her talking
again. :P

I have not found much info to solve this problem. It does not help that I am not overly confident in dealing with circuit diagrams etc. But what I have found was a badly scanned copy of the circuit for the board but little else. Lots about how to mod the board for circuit bending etc. but not much about
how to solve the problem of no power lighting up the device :(

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I have not found much info to solve this problem. It does not help that
I am not overly confident in dealing with circuit diagrams etc. But what
I have found was a badly scanned copy of the circuit for the board but little else. Lots about how to mod the board for circuit bending etc.
but not much about how to solve the problem of no power lighting up the device :(

iFixIt kinda sets one on the right path... :P If your issue is one they cover. But even if not, I've seen tons of repair guides - AND circuit bending walk throughs on Youtube... (circuit bending is when you make the speak n spell ROCK n ROLL!!!)

https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Speak_And_Spell



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ET phone home?


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On 20 Jun 2021 at 12:27a, paulie420 pondered and said...

iFixIt kinda sets one on the right path... :P If your issue is one they cover. But even if not, I've seen tons of repair guides - AND circuit bending walk throughs on Youtube... (circuit bending is when you make
the speak n spell ROCK n ROLL!!!)

https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Speak_And_Spell

Thank you for the link. There's some info on the site but again it seems to
be the same stuff I've found so far. Getting it fixed is a 'nice to have' for me but at the moment not very close to the top of my to-do list :) Still I
can day dream about it :)

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Micro Men (2009) - a story about the rivalry betwen Sinclair
and Acorn computers in the UK during the PC goldrush of the
80's:

https://youtu.be/XXBxV6-zamM
For anyone familiar with the Halt and Catch Fire tv series,
this is a worthy inclusion to consider.

Nice! I'll have to check that out.

Halt and Catch Fire was pretty good. I think it was very loosely based on sone true events. But it's worth the watch.

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For anyone familiar with the Halt and Catch Fire tv series,
this is a worthy inclusion to consider.

Halt and Catch Fire was pretty good. I think it was very loosely based
on sone true events. But it's worth the watch.

I enjoyed Halt and Catch Fire. Mixing of TI & IBM companies along with all
the computers that they developed their online software for.

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Hello hyjinx!

** On Saturday 12.06.21 - 15:55, hyjinx wrote to Avon:

I grew up in the UK, and whilst I had a ZX spectrum at
home, really the BBC ran rings around the Speccy. The model
B specifically was a triumph.

A couple weeks ago I "discovered" a docudrama called Micro Men.
I believe that the ZX Spectrum made a cameo appearance.

Micro Men (2009) - a story about the rivalry betwen Sinclair
and Acorn computers in the UK during the PC goldrush of the
80's:

https://youtu.be/XXBxV6-zamM

For anyone familiar with the Halt and Catch Fire tv series,
this is a worthy inclusion to consider.

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Nice, I'll have a look when I have some time - I have an Archimedes A5000 he
re
at home, fully internet capable, RiscOS was awesome!

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Hello Cozmo.

23 Jun 21 11:09, you wrote to Ogg:

Micro Men (2009) - a story about the rivalry betwen Sinclair
and Acorn computers in the UK during the PC goldrush of the
80's:

https://youtu.be/XXBxV6-zamM
For anyone familiar with the Halt and Catch Fire tv series,
this is a worthy inclusion to consider.

Nice! I'll have to check that out.

Halt and Catch Fire was pretty good. I think it was very loosely based
on sone true events. But it's worth the watch.

yess Halt and Catch Fire is great! the main character and the story is based mainly on several tech stars of the era. they are changing from one to another depending on where they are in the timeline. definitely worth watching it, at least the first two episodes, because after they are starting to push it to
a love story..

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