Sir Clive Sinclair Gone
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2021 6:56 pm
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Re: Sir Clive Sinclair Gone
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2021 7:13 pm
RIP
Re: Sir Clive Sinclair Gone
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2021 7:27 pm
Fancy Dan !, I cut my teeth with a 2nd hand ZX81Tommy Brown wrote: Thu Sep 16, 2021 6:56 pm I loved my Spectrum.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... es-aged-81
RIP Clive, a real trailblazer
Re: Sir Clive Sinclair Gone
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2021 7:43 pm
So did I.fishfoodie wrote: Thu Sep 16, 2021 7:27 pmFancy Dan !, I cut my teeth with a 2nd hand ZX81Tommy Brown wrote: Thu Sep 16, 2021 6:56 pm I loved my Spectrum.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... es-aged-81
RIP Clive, a real trailblazer
Re: Sir Clive Sinclair Gone
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2021 7:46 pm
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.
Re: Sir Clive Sinclair Gone
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2021 8:00 pm
I had a new ZX81 when it first came out... [/flex]fishfoodie wrote: Thu Sep 16, 2021 7:27 pmFancy Dan !, I cut my teeth with a 2nd hand ZX81Tommy Brown wrote: Thu Sep 16, 2021 6:56 pm I loved my Spectrum.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... es-aged-81
RIP Clive, a real trailblazer
Re: Sir Clive Sinclair Gone
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2021 8:16 pm
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.
Re: Sir Clive Sinclair Gone
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2021 8:21 pm
Ah yes, had forgotten about that printer, well it seemed like a luxury at the timeWyndham Upalot wrote: Thu Sep 16, 2021 8:16 pm 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.
Re: Sir Clive Sinclair Gone
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2021 8:37 pm
dpedin wrote: Thu Sep 16, 2021 7:46 pm 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 postRe: Sir Clive Sinclair Gone
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2021 8:59 pm
dpedin wrote: Thu Sep 16, 2021 7:46 pm 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?