Clive Sinclair, inventor of the ZX Spectrum personal computer, has died

guest · Sep 18, 2021

Clive Sinclair, inventor of the ZX Spectrum personal computer, has died
He also made a sleek-looking pocket calculator and invented an early electric vehicle
September 18, 2021
https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/18/...ir-home-computers-electric-vehicle-calculator

Clive Sinclair, who invented the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, an early personal computer, died of cancer Thursday at age 81, his family confirmed. Sinclair was an inventor with an impressive list of electronic products to his name, some, like his pocket calculator, were quite successful, while others, like his Sinclair C5 “electric trike” vehicle, were decidedly not.

Sinclair’s ZX personal computers were priced lower than the then-popular Commodore 64, and well-liked by consumers in the UK. The ZX Spectrum (nicknamed “Speccy”) had a rubber keyboard and a color display, and eventually a library of thousands of games. The first model had 16KB of RAM and sold for £125 (roughly $170). The ZX Spectrum sold some 5 million units worldwide, before it was discontinued in 1992.
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“It was the ideas, the challenge, that he found exciting,” Sinclair’s daughter Belinda said in an interview with The Guardian.
“He’d come up with an idea and say, ‘There’s no point in asking if someone wants it, because they can’t imagine it.’”
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