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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 uk's 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 something of a nationaljoke. and many critics complained it was unsafe on busy urban roads. you try ...

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He launched the first affordable consumer computer in 1980, costing less than £100. his ventures into new forms of transport — including the ill—fated sinclair c5 electric tricycle — were less successful. our technology correspondent rory cellan—jones reports. his drive and enthusiasm made him one of britain's best known inventors. the whole business of invention is a non——material thing. it's very hard to know why it gives such pleasure. clive sinclair's fascination with gadgets started at school and by his late teens he was selling his own electronic kits by mail order and writi...