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The Kempston Interface, produced by Kempston Micro Electronics, was the generic name for any interface on Sinclair's ZX Spectrum series of computers that allowed joysticks complying with the de facto Atari 2600 standard to be used with the machine.
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This 9-pin plug was standard of many systems of the era, and the joysticks were fundamentally compatible with the ZX Spectrum's Kempston Interface and the Sega Master System.
Kempston Interface plugged into a Spectrum Plus
Problems had also been reported with the Kempston Interface breaking down on the newer models and it faded slowly into obscurity, although the option to use Kempston joysticks remained in games until the end of the computer's shelf life.
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The joystick ports were not compatible with the popular Kempston interface, and thus did not work with most Spectrum games released prior to the launch of the ZX Interface 2.
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Kempston and produced
Kempston produced a number of joystick interfaces for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum to allow normal Atari-style DE-9 connector joysticks to be used with it.
Kempston and by
The burgeoning population of Kempston New Town was served by St Stephen's, a temporary iron church in Spring Road which was built in 1888.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was first introduced in Bedford and Kempston by a missionary called Willard Richards on the 1st August 1837.
Grange House was later donated by the Kempston branch of the Howard family to the people of Kempston.
* 8000 Years: A Kempston History edited by HA Carnell, T Booth and HG Tibutt ( 1966 ) Reprinted by Kempston Town Council 1985.
The name of Kempston Hardwick was used by local author Adam Croft for one of his fictional detectives.
The building is currently owned and operated by the Kempston group.
The first Kempston joysticks sold were cheap springless ones for a Phillips Video Game console sold by Voltmace Ltd. Voltmace made the first circuit boards for the interface too.
Kempston and Micro
Kempston Micro Electronics was an electronics company specialising in computer joysticks and related home computer peripherals during the 1980s.
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There were numerous disk drive interfaces, including the Abbeydale Designers / Watford Electronics SPDOS, Abbeydale Designers / Kempston KDOS and Opus Discovery.
Kempston and was
Sessions was born in Largs, and spent some of his earliest years in Kempston, Bedfordshire and St Albans, Hertfordshire.
Until the 19th century Kempston was a mainly rural parish.
Construction was slow at first, but the new district soon began to expand steadily and Kempston acquired a more urban feel.
In 1896 the parish was divided into Kempston Urban District 1, 255 acres ( 5. 1 km² ) and the civil parish of Kempston Rural 3, 770 acres ( 15 km² ).
Kempston in 1908The Urban District was based on East End, Up End and Kempston New Town all of which are in the north eastern part of the parish close to Bedford, and had 86. 8 % of the total population at the 1901 census.
Kempston Rural was three times larger, but remained sparsely populated.
In 1974 Kempston Urban District was abolished and Kempston reverted to being a civil parish, in the Borough of Bedford but with a separate town council with minor powers.
Kempston was recorded as " camestone " in the Domesday Book and had a 6th-century Anglo Saxon burial site, now home to the Saxon Centre.
For many centuries, All Saints ' Church in Church End, which was first Catholic and later Anglican, was the only place of worship in Kempston.
Kempston East Methodist Church in Bedford Road was opened in 1904 to serve the new parts of Kempston in the direction of Bedford.
Kempston abuts both John Bunyan's home parish of Elstow and Bedford, where he was imprisoned.
The first Congregationalist church building in Kempston was opened in the High Street in 1813.
A replacement church was built in Kempston New town in 1871.
The first resident Catholic priest in Kempston was appointed in 1965 and the present small and plain Catholic church in Bedford Road was built at around this time.
The plot was previously the location of the Kempston Liberal Club.
Kempston and name
In 1870 developers began to attempt to develop land on the road from Kempston to Bedford under the name " Kempston New Town ".
Kempston is also a family name for many individuals from British Ancestry.
In 1983, further boundary changes took Kempston out of the constituency, and its name was changed to North Bedfordshire, although it was recognisably still the same constituency and Bedford itself was still much its largest component.
Kempston and for
Kempston serves principally as a dormitory town for Bedford and for Milton Keynes, which is about ten miles away.
Kempston Rural remains a civil parish and is part of Turvey Ward for borough election purposes.
Note 2: The 2001 Kempston Urban figure is the combined total for the three urban wards of Kempston East, Kempston North and Kempston South.
Known for Knight & Culverhouse thrillers and Kempston Hardwick mysteries.
Patrick Hall ( born 20 October 1951 ) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Bedford and Kempston from 1997 to 2010.
He was elected to the House of Commons at the 1997 General Election for the new seat of Bedford and Kempston with a majority of 8, 300.
* Patrick Hall ( born 1951 ), MP for Bedford and Kempston from 1997 to 2010
* Richard Fuller, Conservative MP for Bedford and Kempston 2010 -
The Parish is for the greater part enclosed in a bend in the Ouse, and it touches the parishes of Oakley, Biddenham, Kempston, Stagsden, Stevington and at its western point, Turvey.
Hastingsbury Business & Enterprise College ( formerly Hastingsbury Upper School and Community College ) is a coeducational upper school for 13-18 year olds, located on Hill Rise in Kempston, Bedfordshire, England.
Despite it rural setting, for many years Kempston Hardwick was technically part of Kempston town.
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