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title: "K-2 Kradle Keyboard and Enclosure"
id: "25218"
type: "post"
slug: "k-2-kradle-keyboard-and-enclosure"
published_at: "2020-05-14T14:38:39+00:00"
modified_at: "2023-01-18T17:32:59+00:00"
url: "http://localhost/blog/k-2-kradle-keyboard-and-enclosure/"
markdown_url: "http://localhost/blog/k-2-kradle-keyboard-and-enclosure.md"
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..."
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  - "Blog"
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  - "K-2 Electronics"
  - "TS 1000"
---

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

### Tags

[Blog](/category/blog/)
[K-2 Electronics](/tag/k-2-electronics/)
[TS 1000](/tag/ts1000/)

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[David Anderson](/author/david/)
I'm a big fan of the Timex/Sinclair computers: my first was the TS 1000. I love building things for my TS 2068 and sharing them with others on this site and andertone.com.