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The multimillionaire entrepreneur launched the first affordable consumer computer in 1980.

Innovation, a digital watch, brought his company to its knees. undaunted, he set up sinclair research and in 1980 launched a ground—breaking personal computer, the zx 80. it sold for under £100. it was the zx spectrum with its colour display that was his biggest success, credited by some with launching the uks computer and video games industries. 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 s...

His drive and enthusiasm made him one of britains best known inventors. the whole business of invention is a non—material thing. its very hard to know why it gives such pleasure. clive sinclairs fascination with gadgets started at school and by his late teens, he was selling his own electronic kits by mail order and writing technical manuals. he then put a magnifying bubble over each digit to make it visible. an obsession with miniaturisation saw him launch the words fist slimline pocket calcu...

Dundee watchmakers started making Sinclair computers at Timex in 1981 © DCT Media The final testing bench for the Sinclair computer at the Dundee Timex factory. Dundee watchmakers started making computers 40 years ago in March 1981 which would spawn the birth of the city’s video games industry. The ZX81 computer was manufactured at the Timex factory which was the UK’s largest supplier of watches and the city’s single biggest employer with 5,000 workers. Nimble fingers It was a workforce ...

Spectrum Next: The Evolution of the Speccy   We love the ZX Spectrum. Why wouldn’t we? It was much more than just a computer: it was a machine that sparked a gaming revolution, neatly housed within its iconic design powered by sheer simplicity. The Speccy was, and still is, on a league of its own. Decades have come and gone and the Speccy is still alive and kicking. New games are being launched all the time, the demoscene carries on pushing the hardware limits to the unimaginable, artists k...