Sir Clive Sinclair has died
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Sir Clive Sinclair has died
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#2https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81 or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Sinclair_1000
Those were wild little toys; and people stretched them beyond all reason.
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#3> "But he did not make personal use of his own inventions. His daughter said he never had a pocket calculator as far as she knew, instead carrying a slide-rule around with him at all times. And he told interviewers he used neither a computer nor email."
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#4I owe him a career, I suspect a lot of others do as well.
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#5https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81 or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Sinclair_1000 Those were wild little toys; and people stretched them beyond all reason.
RIP. My first "computer" was a Timex Sinclair 1000. I still have it, though I lost the power supply.
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#6I owe him a career, I suspect a lot of others do as well.
Absolutely. During a time when most any other computer was an unreachable dream in communist Poland the ZX Spectrum was a gift to the emerging geek community here. I was lucky to have received my own in 1984. I was one of the first in the neighbourhood to get one. It literally cost about 2 months of my dad's wages. Those were the days.
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#7> "But he did not make personal use of his own inventions. His daughter said he never had a pocket calculator as far as she knew, instead carrying a slide-rule around with him at all times. And he told interviewers he used neither a computer nor email."
That doesn't particularly surprise me. His computers weren't aimed at middle aged adult engineers. The early calculators weren't all that sophisticated. They were convenience devices rather than serious tools. There's nothing wrong with designing products aimed at people other than yourself.
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#9https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81 or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Sinclair_1000 Those were wild little toys; and people stretched them beyond all reason.
The ZX81 was the first computer I ever touched, in terms of “stretching,” for me it stopped working after I used it for an hour or so.
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#10The ZX Spectrum was my first computer. So many good moments with it... It's hard to describe it for the current generation - if you were there, you know what I mean.
Sir Clive Sinclair had an enormous impact on my life and career. Today is a sad day for me :(