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title: "K-2 Kradle Keyboard and Enclosure"
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published_at: "2020-05-14T14:38:39+00:00"
modified_at: "2023-01-18T17:32:59+00:00"
author: "David Anderson"
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excerpt: "K-2 Electronics Design offered a particularly robust keyboard upgrade to the ZX-81/TS-1000, one that far exceeded the options available from many other manufacturers at the time. The Kradle was more than just a keyboard upgrade: it included an expansion card with 64K RAM, a joystick port, cassette signal conditioning, extra automatically shifted keys and several…"
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# K-2 Kradle Keyboard and Enclosure

![Image](http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/K-2-Kradle-b-1024x768.jpg)

[K-2 Electronics Design](http://localhost/company/k-2-electronics/) offered a particularly robust keyboard upgrade to the ZX-81/TS-1000, one that far exceeded the options available from many other manufacturers at the time.

The [Kradle](http://localhost/product/kradle/) was more than just a keyboard upgrade: it included an expansion card with 64K RAM, a joystick port, cassette signal conditioning, extra automatically shifted keys and several other features.

As upgrades go, it was an attractive package. And that was not all: two further upgrade options gave an RS-232 and parallel input/output ports. The latter was adaptable to drive parallel printers.

- [K-2 Electronics Design](http://localhost/company/k-2-electronics/)
- [Kradle](http://localhost/product/kradle/)