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Clive Sinclair RIP—a true genius

Brian Boru

Brian Boru

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Sad to see this today:
www.bbc.com

Sir Clive Sinclair: Tireless inventor ahead of his time

The prolific innovator invented the pocket calculator and the ill-fated Sinclair C5 electric car.
www.bbc.com www.bbc.com

I followed his exploits back in the day. He wasn't a great businessman—failed to read consumer preference too often—but he was one of the great early heroes of innovation in gaming with his affordable ZX series. I remember lusting after the ZX Spectrum with its unbelievable 16K of RAM, probably his greatest success.

Oddly enough, he was averse to using some techs himself—eg email, internet, computer. Also a very decent poker player.

Thanks Sir Clive, I've no doubt you inspired many a kid to pursue tech innovation!

en.wikipedia.org

Clive Sinclair - Wikipedia

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Brian Boru said:
Yeah, they vie with the 9600 bit/s modem screams of agony.
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It was very similar to old dial up modem connection noise.
Brian Boru said:
My first personal computer was a Spectravideo, the whole machine packed into the keyboard housing. Programs loaded from cassette tapes via my own cassette player, and it plugged into my TV for output.
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Never heard of that one. Sounds very similar to the 48k ZX Spectrum I used when I was too small to understand really The 128K Spectrum '+2' I remember much better had a built in tape deck. Fancy.
 
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