Re: ZX81 30 years old

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On 13/03/2011 08:58, M.O.B. i L. wrote:
> Matt Rudge wrote:
 >
>> Auntie has weighed in with her tribute today:
>>
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12703674
>>
>> A little late, but on the front page nonetheless :)
>
> In the article it says that the ZX Printer was a thermal printer when in
> fact it was a spark printer: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spark_printer>.

If that's the biggest error they've made, they've done pretty well. 
After the recent Telegraph article about the Elite relaunch [0], I was 
reading this one bracing myself for the inevitable point where they 
refer to it as a console, or reminisce about floppy discs, or just 
completely confuse it with the Spectrum... and I was very pleasantly 
surprised. Thumbs up for the Beeb, I say!

[0] 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/video-games/8304237/ZX-Spectrum-relaunch-gaming-goes-back-to-the-future.html

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ZX81 30 years old Richard Mahoney <richard@digit4l.net> - 2011-03-04 21:06 +0000
  Re: ZX81 30 years old Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net> - 2011-03-05 12:50 +0000
    Re: ZX81 30 years old "Brian Gaff" <Briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2011-03-05 16:06 +0000
      Re: ZX81 30 years old Peter Liebert-Adelt <peter@zschopower.de> - 2011-03-05 17:14 +0100
      Re: ZX81 30 years old Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net> - 2011-03-07 09:40 +0000
      Re: ZX81 30 years old greenaum@yahoo.co.uk (greenaum) - 2011-03-09 21:48 +0000
  Re: ZX81 30 years old Pedro Timóteo <pedro@dehumanizer.com> - 2011-03-05 13:21 +0000
    Re: ZX81 30 years old "Brian Gaff" <Briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2011-03-05 16:06 +0000
    Re: ZX81 30 years old colboy <colboy@gmail.com> - 2011-03-05 11:41 -0800
      Re: ZX81 30 years old Pedro Timóteo <pedro@dehumanizer.com> - 2011-03-05 20:54 +0000
        Re: ZX81 30 years old colboy <colboy@gmail.com> - 2011-03-05 19:56 -0800
  Re: ZX81 30 years old Matt Rudge <mrudge@googleswebmailservice.com> - 2011-03-11 17:53 +0000
    Re: ZX81 30 years old "M.O.B. i L." <mikaelb@df.lth.se> - 2011-03-13 09:58 +0100
      Re: ZX81 30 years old Matthew Westcott <gasman@raww.org> - 2011-03-13 12:30 +0000
    Re: ZX81 30 years old Francois LE COAT <lecoat@atari.org> - 2011-03-13 20:11 +0100

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