restorer-john
Grand Contributor
Clive Sinclair has died.
My first real computer was a Sinclair ZX-80, then a ZX-81. Wiggly 16kB RAM pack and all. Membrane keyboard and overheated in summer. But I loved it. Made robots and ended up swapping it for a Tamiya Sand Scorcher R/C car which I sold in original condition only about 10 years ago for a huge sum (after having stored it for ~40 years). His affordable computers got many of us into computing, interfacing with the real world etc.
Clive made electric cars, audio amplifiers and was a true electronic pioneer, inventor and legend.
See @pma thread:
R.I.P. Clive.
Clive Sinclair, Inventive Computer Pioneer, Dies at 81 (Published 2021)
His inexpensive Sinclair personal computer, one of many inventions, was an introduction to computing for young people in Britain and beyond.
www.nytimes.com
My first real computer was a Sinclair ZX-80, then a ZX-81. Wiggly 16kB RAM pack and all. Membrane keyboard and overheated in summer. But I loved it. Made robots and ended up swapping it for a Tamiya Sand Scorcher R/C car which I sold in original condition only about 10 years ago for a huge sum (after having stored it for ~40 years). His affordable computers got many of us into computing, interfacing with the real world etc.
Clive made electric cars, audio amplifiers and was a true electronic pioneer, inventor and legend.
See @pma thread:
50+ years of Sinclair Z-30 amplifier and 40+ years of my DIY mods
50+ years of Sinclair Z-30 amplifier and 40+ years of my DIY mods It was in 1969 when Sinclair Project 60 kit appeared on the market in UK and it contained Z-30 amplifier modules, advertised as 25W and 50W peak. It also advertised to be “the world's lowest distortion high fidelity amplifier”...
www.audiosciencereview.com
R.I.P. Clive.
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