Non - Clive Sinclair

billythekid

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Still got my ZX81 tucked away somewhere. :grinning:

Did anyone ever have a C5?

Inventor Sir Clive Sinclair, who popularised the home computer and invented the pocket calculator, has died at his London home aged 81.

His daughter Belinda Sinclair said he passed away on Thursday morning after having cancer for more than a decade.

Sir Clive's products included the ZX series of computers and his ill-fated C5 electric vehicle.

Sir Clive Sinclair: Computing pioneer dies aged 81

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58587521
 
Still got my ZX81 tucked away somewhere. :grinning:

Did anyone ever have a C5?

Inventor Sir Clive Sinclair, who popularised the home computer and invented the pocket calculator, has died at his London home aged 81.

His daughter Belinda Sinclair said he passed away on Thursday morning after having cancer for more than a decade.

Sir Clive's products included the ZX series of computers and his ill-fated C5 electric vehicle.

Sir Clive Sinclair: Computing pioneer dies aged 81

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58587521

We had the Spectrum ZX48K , the upgraded one after the rubber keyboard …
Loved it - had so many games , loads of football ones …
“ Football Director “
Was the best one - won Division 2 as Champions as AFCB - and won the FA and League cups that season too !
Then five years in the Division 1 before relegation …..
Wish I’d kept my painstaking season by season record , in the style of the Rothmans Year Book … Oh well .

There was a chap in my village who had a C5 - he’d ride it to work and I’d overtake him on my paper round ….
 
I built a ZX80. Set me on my way to a life in computing.

Met him a couple of times, nice guy. My favourite anecdote was when he turned up as best man at a wedding having stopped on the way at a petrol station to buy some glass tumblers to give to the bride and groom lol
 
My dad borrowed a ZX81 from his boss at work. I stood there mouth agape as Arkanoid loaded up. My dad never figured how to repeat the feat so my mum would switch it on and I would hammer away at the keyboard typing nonsense early in the morning before I went to playschool.

I have golden memories of going round my friend's house, drinking Sodastream and playing Manic Miner on his 48k. The loading screen and accompanying sounds predated Aphex Twin gigs by a decade!
 
ZX80 & 81, then onto the SPECTRUM. Magazines with game codes in BASIC in them, and playing games like Jet Set Willy and Manic Miner.
 
jeez, the early 80's really was a time of change.

At Poole Tech (78-80), remember the 'silicon revolution' was buzzword - had no idea what that was about, then couple of years later got the zx spectrum & typed in some program from a magazine (found it v boring).

It was all happening though & Sir Clive was a true pioneer - more of an inventor than a businessman, unlike the other fella - but a master of innovation & bringing useful affordable innovation to the masses - hey I had a sinclair calculator as a kid & that was the bees knees, really.

Early days in tech terms, but an interesting time where plenty of opportunities subsequently came from the back of the early pioneers - and from a time where in my childhood I don't think too much changed by the same magnitude.

Those were the days my friends ...
 
My dad borrowed a ZX81 from his boss at work. I stood there mouth agape as Arkanoid loaded up. My dad never figured how to repeat the feat so my mum would switch it on and I would hammer away at the keyboard typing nonsense early in the morning before I went to playschool.

I have golden memories of going round my friend's house, drinking Sodastream and playing Manic Miner on his 48k. The loading screen and accompanying sounds predated Aphex Twin gigs by a decade!
Aphex Twin :clap:
 

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