Sir Clive Sinclair Gone

[Tommy Brown]

I loved my Spectrum.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... es-aged-81

[sturginho]

RIP

[fishfoodie]

I loved my Spectrum.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... es-aged-81

Fancy Dan !, I cut my teeth with a 2nd hand ZX81


RIP Clive, a real trailblazer

[sorCrer]

I loved my Spectrum.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... es-aged-81

Fancy Dan !, I cut my teeth with a 2nd hand ZX81


RIP Clive, a real trailblazer

So did I.

[dpedin]

I had a summer student job in Timex, Dundee in the late 70s/early 80s - this is where the Sinclair Spectrum was made/assembled. At one point Dundee had the highest per capita computer ownership in the world, even more than Silicon Valley, more Spectrum's went out the back door than the front. You could buy them cheap in the pubs and everyone was a computer 'expert'. We had one each in the family and all my cousins and mates had one as well. The spectrum probably kept Timex going for an extra decade in Dundee. Probably why Dundee is still an international centre for software/games development.

[tabascoboy]

I loved my Spectrum.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... es-aged-81

Fancy Dan !, I cut my teeth with a 2nd hand ZX81


RIP Clive, a real trailblazer

I had a new ZX81 when it first came out... [/flex]

[Wyndham Upalot]

First off had a ZX80, then a ZX81, then onto a CBM64. Oddly, never owned a Spectrum. I remember having a tiny thermal printer for the ZX81 that was ridiculously impractical. Still, they were innocent fun days coding in BASIC, and then later on Z80 machine language.

[tabascoboy]

First off had a ZX80, then a ZX81, then onto a CBM64. Oddly, never owned a Spectrum. I remember having a tiny thermal printer for the ZX81 that was ridiculously impractical. Still, they were innocent fun days coding in BASIC, and then later on Z80 machine language.

Ah yes, had forgotten about that printer, well it seemed like a luxury at the time

[Slick]

I had a summer student job in Timex, Dundee in the late 70s/early 80s - this is where the Sinclair Spectrum was made/assembled. At one point Dundee had the highest per capita computer ownership in the world, even more than Silicon Valley, more Spectrum's went out the back door than the front. You could buy them cheap in the pubs and everyone was a computer 'expert'. We had one each in the family and all my cousins and mates had one as well. The spectrum probably kept Timex going for an extra decade in Dundee. Probably why Dundee is still an international centre for software/games development.

Great post

[Kawazaki]

I had a summer student job in Timex, Dundee in the late 70s/early 80s - this is where the Sinclair Spectrum was made/assembled. At one point Dundee had the highest per capita computer ownership in the world, even more than Silicon Valley, more Spectrum's went out the back door than the front. You could buy them cheap in the pubs and everyone was a computer 'expert'. We had one each in the family and all my cousins and mates had one as well. The spectrum probably kept Timex going for an extra decade in Dundee. Probably why Dundee is still an international centre for software/games development.

Is Dundee a suburb of Liverpool?