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Subject: RIP Sir Clive Sinclair

SamTherapy opened this issue on Sep 17, 2021 · 6 posts
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SamTherapy ( ) posted Fri, 17 September 2021 at 7:44 AM · edited Mon, 09 December 2024 at 10:17 AM

British inventor, entrpreneur, genius and general purpose oddball inventor, Sir Clive Sinclair passed away yesterday - Sept 16 2021 - at the age of 81.


Although he wasn't widely known in the USA, he had a huge influence on home computing in the UK and Europe, with his 8 bit machine, the ZX Spectrum.  The Spectrum was responsible for launching the computer games and graphics careers of many people in the UK and beyond, including me, and thanks to this, many people in the industry today owe a huge debt of thanks to Sir Clive and his brilliantly inventive mind.

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Boni ( ) posted Fri, 17 September 2021 at 8:30 AM

May he rest in peace.  

Boni


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infinity10 ( ) posted Fri, 17 September 2021 at 8:50 AM

R.I.P.

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Miss B ( ) posted Fri, 17 September 2021 at 10:13 AM

R.I.P. Sir Clive.

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SamTherapy ( ) posted Fri, 17 September 2021 at 3:11 PM

For anyone wondering what he was all about, there's a dramatized version of happenings in the early 8 bit years called Micro Men, over on YouTube.  It was originally shown on BBC a few years ago.  Worth watching to get an idea of how the early days of home computers looked in the UK, and the show is pretty funny in places, too.


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consumer573 ( ) posted Tue, 28 December 2021 at 5:16 PM

In the USA it was a Joint Venture between Timex and Sinclair corporation for the Timex SInclair computer which we probably still have somewhere's around.  Thanks for the information.

Interview in 2010 with SInclair:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNXM6DhLaMo



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