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And tributes for sir clive sinclair, the home computing pioneer who has died at the age of 81. hello and a very warm welcome to the programme. the first convoy of trucks carrying iranian fuel has entered lebanon from syria in a move organised by hezbollah. crowds lined the streets to celebrate the arrival as the country struggles to provide enough petrol and diesel, with regular blackouts as a consequence. hezbollah says its trying to ease the countrys deep energy crisis but opponents say its po...

Earlier, i spoke to video game designer graham devine. he told me more about sir clive sinclairs legacy. i owe my career to him, i think many people in the industry do. a lot of game genres started up here, and that was the beginning of the game industry, so i think he is responsible for a lot of the foundations of the computer game industry. in terms of the sinclair spectrum, what is your experience was two what are your memories of using it? my very first games were on the sinclair spectrum. y...

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More money had been poured into his obsession with a new form of urban transport. the sinclair c5, launched in the freezing winter of 1985, became something of a national joke and many critics complained it was unsafe on busy urban roads. you try some things sometimes they succeed and sometimes they dont. and i dont look back on it and say to myself the c5 was a wildest idea which failed because peoplejumped on it, i dont think thats true. i think it was not good enough to succeed, simple as tha...

Our games journalist from pc—game at magazine. lovely to have you here. he is such a legend. what do you think was the biggest contribution to help kickstart the uks computer industry? definitely it was sir clive _ computer industry? definitely it was sir clive sinclair - it was sir clive sinclair always had a focus on affordability, and that had an impact on it notjust the british industry but globally. jack, the commodore founder, very important to american computing. he took inspiration fro...

The government to signify the system and encourage more people to be vaccinated, and look out for many thousands of jobs that could be at risk after the scheme and is at the end of the month. we understand an announcement will be made on friday afternoon, but the changes still need to be signed off. sir clive sinclair, the british inventor who created one of the first pocket calculators and brought home computers to the masses has died at the age of 81. he launched the first affordable consumer ...

Sinclair spectrum. you could buy a computer for £125 and it had the worst keyboard in the world, i remember, but you could buy that computer and learn the basics, you could but they came onto a cassette tape, because we used to set tapes back then, and you could sell it. there was no internet back then, there was no way to get then, there was no way to get the game out onto the internet, so we had to sell it on cassette tapes, but we started a game industry out of that. it was small but from th...

How was it said? dont know, wasnt there. i cant comment for something i dont know, i wasnt there. i need to hear for myself. have i had it said to me, is what i can talk about, my own experience. yes, many times. and you can see the full hardtalk interview with naomi campbell on our network starting on friday, do try to catch it. sir clive sinclair, the british inventor who created one of the first pocket calculators and brought home computers to the masses, has died at the age of 81. he launche...

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So we had to sell it on cassette tapes, but we started a game industry out of that. it was small but from that we started a larger industry, and quite a lot of us are still in that industry today. what sort of hallmarks of sir clive sinclairs worked we see in modern computers today, if any? if you speak to gamers back then, they respected small amounts of memory. they could programme a lot into just a little bits, and that meant a lot to do them.