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RIP Sir Clive Sinclair
Sir Clive Sinclair: Computing pioneer dies aged 81 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58587521
My first memory of a 'proper' computer, rather than an Atari cartridge console, was my dad's friend's ZX81. 1k of memory. Press a button and a character appears on the TV! Mind blown. Then my first computer was a 48k Spectrum. Loved the games, loved programming BASIC. Didn't love a loading crash after five minutes of squealing loading from a tape. Thank you Sir Clive for the memories and the inspiration, RIP
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That’s sad news. Much maligned for some of his more unusual ideas, but a true ‘potting shed boffin’ in the best British tradition.
I had one of the very first Enterprise programmable calculators in 1977 or 1978 and it was a thing of wonder. Bloody useless but a real step up from the 1975 Texas Instruments monster my dad brought back from the States. |
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Great mind and a legend.
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We had a ZX80 given to us by my step-grandad. There was a game called flea race where there were 5 black dots on the screen, they moved at random from left to right and you had to guess which one would 'win'.
We then had a Spectrum with the legendary Daily Thompson's Decathlon! |
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I still have a ZX80 and a ZX81.
Sad news This is worth watching if you can find it https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n5b92 |
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I still have my old 1980 Texas Instruments LED machine that took ROM and RAM units in the back and did lots of fancy programming (I felt very "NASA" using it)... To be honest, though, the trusty Casio was more useful... and used less of the national grid to power it... I currently use a couple of HP calculators... One is somewhat user friendly work horse scientific.. the other requires you to understand and programme in RP (but is an awesome machine still)... I also have an HP emulator on my iPhone.... Geek... Yup... RIP Sir Clive.... although maybe the C5 was not the greatest idea...
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So many happy childhood memories of the Spectrum 48K. My favourite was always Football Manager. Used to play it for hours trying to get to the first division. There were so many playable games that were addictive. I remember going through a new keyboard and a few joysticks playing Daley Thompson’s Decathlon! Who remembers the Poke cheats and the Poke Hardware to freeze the game and enter poke cheats. 😀
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I was always a commdore64 man.... RIP Sir Clive
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I got a ZX80 when it first came out. It was an advert in the Sunday Express. £79 if you assembled it yourself, £100 pre-assembled.
I got the 16k ram pack pretty soon after as 1k ram wasn't any real use. Like everyone else, I placed a cold carton of milk against the back of the ram pack as it easily over-heated. My first program: (of course) 10 Print "Hello World" 20 GoTo 10 |
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Sir Clive probably started my career in IT with a ZX80 and a wobbly RAM pack!
RIP Sir Clive.
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