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Sir Clive Sinclair Dies age 81

The man that game us the pocket calculator, ZX81 and Spectrum has died. 

I remember the dullness that followed the intrigue of programming on the ZX81. The spectrum was truly a game changer. 

RIP

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  • I loved programming little games on my Spectrum back in the day. 
    RIP Sir Clive, long live Horace goes Skiing
  • Shame about the C5, but we all make mistakes. A clever man, just perhaps a 'bit before his time' .. R I P
  • Fumbluff said:
    I loved programming little games on my Spectrum back in the day. 
    RIP Sir Clive, long live Horace goes Skiing
    I was only talking to a bloke at work this morning about Horace goes skiing.

    RIP Sir Clive
  • R.I.P.

    My uncle had a C5 which i used to ride as a child, what a piece of shit it was! Hopefully it won't overshadow the pocket calculator which was life altering and the Spectrum which was a game changer.
  • Thought he died years ago in an accident in his garden.

    Me and my brother had the 48k with rubber keys. We had a book and you inputted the codes, it loaded up and you could play the game. 

    RIP
  • RIP to a man of genius.
  • I loved my Speccy. R.I.P.
  • The man that game us the pocket calculator, ZX81 and Spectrum has died. 

    I remember the dullness that followed the intrigue of programming on the ZX81. The spectrum was truly a game changer. 

    RIP
    The ZX81 was a genuinely creative tool.
  • Loved and still love my dear old Spectrum- this is where gaming began for me.
    RIP Sir Clive.
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  • edited September 2021
    Got me into computing and a reasonable career…couldn’t get on with the ZX81 keyboard so switched to Commodore VIC20…but Sinclair changed the face of computing.  RIP.
  • RIP, a massive innovator in the late 70s and early 80s, who introduced a whole generation of children to home computing, and programming. And wobbly 16k Ram packs...
  • Proper visionary, and what I grew up expecting a tech genius to look like, instead of those who (seemingly rather sinister) dominate the economy today.

    RIP.
  • zx81 was my first computer, in fact having a clear out the other week I actually sold my old programming book!

    RIP
  • I remember marvelling at the neatness of a "personal computer" when one of my school mates got the ZX81. Rubber keys by jove !!!  

    Bloke was a genius. RIP
  • I have my speccy in the loft somewhere with tapes and a microdrive. 
  • I too had the rubber keyed Spectrum. 

    Nothing beat your mate discovering a cracking game you tape to taping it for yourself. Waiting to see if your bootleg copy would load up - especially if machine code rather than basic. Failing then adjusting the volume on your tape recorder then going again. 

    Mine blew up after many years use by plugging in my Kenpston Joystick into the port whilst the computer was turned on. 

    RIP Clive - thanks for the memories 


  • I used to write programmes that looped with minor changes projecting patterns onto an old colour TV. The processor was so small when I combined it with a tone generating line it could only do one at a time...
  • RIP - I met him once - interesting bloke - he loved poker, which took me by surprise

    Fond memories of playing Jetpac on my mates Sinclair
  • I used to play poker with him regularly at tournaments in the Victoria casino absolute gentleman at all times
    RIP we have lost a genius of our time
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  • edited September 2021
    I used to type in listings from mags like Computer and Video games. Most of the games were crap but there were a few great ones like a caterpillar one similar to the Nokia Phone game. I enjoyed changing the graphics to personalise them a bit. 

    Manic Miner and Daley Thompson's Decathlon were games I spent a lot of time playing and Knightlore was fantastic technically. The latter was a real joystick killer. It was a great little thing the 48k Speccy. 
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