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Post by Wynn Chester on Sept 16, 2021 19:21:11 GMT
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Post by ontheslate on Sept 16, 2021 19:43:02 GMT
Very clever man was interesting to listen to, but unfortunately the c5 caused him to be a bit of a joke in the media, but he was a pioneer in the computer industry.RIP
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Post by wayne2467 on Sept 16, 2021 19:48:10 GMT
Yeah I had a zx81-remember playing manic miner on it
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Post by McCann on Sept 16, 2021 20:50:42 GMT
Was sure he had died before now for some reason. Was a C64 boy but almost everyone else seemed to have ZX81 Spectrums.
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Post by jno on Sept 17, 2021 4:07:04 GMT
RIP Sir Clive. Thanks for everything (maybe not the C5 though).
Donkey Kong ZX81 style:
Question: What do the 'A' and the 'J' stand for?
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Deus est regit qui omnia.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2021 8:58:26 GMT
I believe he also invented the pocket calculator. Not all his inventions were a commercial success, but that's what inventing is all about.
A prodigiously talented man who, with others, paved the way for the unstoppable tech revolution.
RIP Sir Clive.
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Post by westldner on Sept 17, 2021 10:51:42 GMT
RIP Sir Clive Sinclair
Has managed to get so many people working and being productive with the help of giving people a really cool looking computer in their homes. Not one of those Acorn cr*p and I don't know how anyone could own an BBC Micro, as it felt already dated at the time. At least he tried to make going to work, greener with that bicycle, too.
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Post by Arch Stanton on Sept 17, 2021 15:59:26 GMT
Question: What do the 'A' and the 'J' stand for? Anticipated Judicial proceedings. It was such a bad copy though, even Nintendo didn’t bother to sue. |
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Post by Arch Stanton on Sept 17, 2021 16:01:32 GMT
RIP Clive.
What a dude.
Loved my Spectrum 48k.
Thanks man.
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Post by daz on Sept 19, 2021 3:19:32 GMT
A shame. Us 80s kids had a lot to be thankful to Clive for with pioneering computers where for a couple of quid, on top of actually having a computer of course, you could spend hours engrossed in games like Jet Pack, Jet Set Willy and many, many more. Very primative looking back on it now, but it had to start somewhere and we weren't complaining, it kick started the home computer revolution. Just a shame that the huge leap we made in this country in home computing in the 80s fizzled out and the American giants filled the void instead, could and should have been different.
Easy to mock his C5, but you think how important electric cars are going to be in the future it showed once again how ahead of the curve he was, albeit the actual car wasn't a success, but the idea behind it was sound.
I am hoping the Beeb show the brilliant Micro Man as a tribute to him at some point.
RIP Clive and thanks for givings us kids something to do on cold winter evenings back in the 80s.
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Post by coyote on Sept 19, 2021 9:40:26 GMT
I had (still have!) a Spectrum 48K and spent hours on Manic Miner, Skool Daze, Chequered Flag, Football Manager and countless other games. In an era where the BBC Micro cost £400 which was a fortune and out of most parents' budgets, the Spectrum 48K was £129. OK it had a rubber keyboard and wasn't high-end, but it wasn't supposed to be. A whole generation of kids was introduced to computing this way.
Agree with Daz that while everyone mocked the C5 it was ahead of its time, a good idea but poorly executed and badly received. Good to know he was still inventing right up until the end. RIP Clive.
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Post by Arch Stanton on Sept 19, 2021 11:12:46 GMT
I had (still have!) a Spectrum 48K and spent hours on Manic Miner, Skool Daze, Chequered Flag, Football Manager and countless other games. In an era where the BBC Micro cost £400 which was a fortune and out of most parents' budgets, the Spectrum 48K was £129. OK it had a rubber keyboard and wasn't high-end, but it wasn't supposed to be. A whole generation of kids was introduced to computing this way. Agree with Daz that while everyone mocked the C5 it was ahead of its time, a good idea but poorly executed and badly received. Good to know he was still inventing right up until the end. RIP Clive. My grandad had a C5 briefly, he was buggered by emphysema and Uncle Bertie bought him one to tootle about in. He didn’t use it much though. He was more interested in farming than newfangled contraptions. |
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Post by Arch Stanton on Sept 19, 2021 11:13:41 GMT
I had (still have!) a Spectrum 48K and spent hours on Manic Miner, Skool Daze, Chequered Flag, Football Manager and countless other games. In an era where the BBC Micro cost £400 which was a fortune and out of most parents' budgets, the Spectrum 48K was £129. OK it had a rubber keyboard and wasn't high-end, but it wasn't supposed to be. A whole generation of kids was introduced to computing this way. Agree with Daz that while everyone mocked the C5 it was ahead of its time, a good idea but poorly executed and badly received. Good to know he was still inventing right up until the end. RIP Clive. I spent countless hours on those games too. |
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Post by Portland Road on Sept 23, 2021 7:06:26 GMT
I think the C5 was too vulnerable and flimsy to be a success.
It was more like a pedal car than a forerunner to the mobility scooters and electric cars we see today - however, its concept may have had some influence on these.
R.I.P. Sir Clive Sinclair.
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