Today is a sad day, because Sir Clive Sinclair, a pioneer of home computing has died aged 81.
Definitely very sad news
May he enjoy the inventors heaven.
>BBC News story
Mark
RIP - Sir Clive Sinclair dies aged 81
RIP - Sir Clive Sinclair dies aged 81
Standby alert
“There are four lights!”
Step up to red alert. Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb
Looking forward to summer in Somerset later in the year
Not as many MTXs as Dave!
“There are four lights!”
Step up to red alert. Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb
Looking forward to summer in Somerset later in the year
Not as many MTXs as Dave!
Re: RIP - Sir Clive Sinclair dies aged 81
Unbelievable. If it wasn’t for him, the home computer revolution of the ‘80s would of never happened. It’s thanks to him I got into computers when my father bought a ZX81.
RIP Sir Clive.
RIP Sir Clive.
Re: RIP - Sir Clive Sinclair dies aged 81
Not sure I agree that "the home computer revolution would never have happened". I think it would have taken longer, cost consumers more and been dominated solely by American and eventually Japanese giants.
And that would have been a shame, because then we'd have missed out on all the idiosyncratic machines from UK companies like Memotech, Jupiter, Oric, Dragon, MGT, Enterprise, Tatung (ok, so UK designed), etc.
Still, he was a true British eccentric and obviously very clever and deserves his place in the pantheon of Great British Inventors and Entrepreneurs, if there is such a thing!
At the very least: he's up there in the Valhalla for 80s computer designers, where they can drink Bovril all day and design ASICs late into the night and worry about cost reduction, case design and bundled software at future date that never comes!
RIP.
And that would have been a shame, because then we'd have missed out on all the idiosyncratic machines from UK companies like Memotech, Jupiter, Oric, Dragon, MGT, Enterprise, Tatung (ok, so UK designed), etc.
Still, he was a true British eccentric and obviously very clever and deserves his place in the pantheon of Great British Inventors and Entrepreneurs, if there is such a thing!
At the very least: he's up there in the Valhalla for 80s computer designers, where they can drink Bovril all day and design ASICs late into the night and worry about cost reduction, case design and bundled software at future date that never comes!
RIP.
Steve G
Danish Memotech MTX 512, MFX and loving it
Danish Memotech MTX 512, MFX and loving it