RIP Sir Clive Sinclair
 

https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...x=1631812764-1

RIP, Sir Clive.

Re: RIP Sir Clive Sinclair
 

Also inventor of the C5, which he never could live down. :)

RIP Sir Clive.

Re: RIP Sir Clive Sinclair
 

Unfortunately, the C5 was ahead of it's time, and would sell big today.


I still remember my dad bringing home a ZX81, with a 64k memory module that fixed to the back, that if you moved it erased every time you had been doing, and tape deck.



Then there were the 3 days to type the code that was in a computer magazine, and the next week spent reading over, and over again only to find you had typed a "." instead of ","


do people remember the fridge kicking in and a power surge which reset and you lost everything

Re: RIP Sir Clive Sinclair
 

I didnt have any of those issues.
I never had a Sinclair. I bought an Apple II in 1979.
That served me for 2 years, until I got a BBC Micro in 1981 .

Re: RIP Sir Clive Sinclair
 

RIP, kind of ironic, the inventor of the zx81 passing away at the age of 81

First computer was a spectrum 48k (with rubber keyboard)
Then +2 & +3

Re: RIP Sir Clive Sinclair
 

Did your dad nick them for you?

Re: RIP Sir Clive Sinclair
 

Considering my father died when I was six weeks old, I highly doubt it

Re: RIP Sir Clive Sinclair
 

I had to look that up, Id never heard of the +2 or +3 models until reading this. :cool:

Re: RIP Sir Clive Sinclair
 

They were iirc pretty much the same as the Amstrad cpc464 & 6128