A new Lisp-based OS that hearkens back to the old days of comprehensible computers

Eric Christopherson echristopherson at gmail.com
Wed Sep 30 09:55:54 CDT 2015


On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29 September 2015 at 19:06, SPC <spedraja at ono.com> wrote:
>> Very interesting. I must do an end-of-training project this year involving
>> Rapsberry Pi devices. Perhaps I'll give it a try.
>
>
> I just ordered a Pi 2, fitted inside a modified replacement keyboard
> for a ZX Spectrum that I found when packing up my house before leaving
> the UK. It's required a little bit of case modification to the
> keyboard, which is a slightly shame, but it was not particularly
> valuable and I have no other use for it.
>
> The keyboard is one of these:
>
> http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/12269/LMT-68FX2-Keyboard-for-the-Spectrum/

That's cool; but that is the strangest layout I've seen for arrow keys.

>
> And the conversion was done by Tynemouth Software:
>
> http://blog.tynemouthsoftware.co.uk/
>
> Dave Curran of Tynemouth refurbishes dead 8-bits either as USB
> keyboards for modern computers, or fits RasPis into them to bring them
> back to life.
>
> https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/TynemouthSoftware

-- 
        Eric Christopherson


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