Rip Clive Sinclair

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Jedi boro

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An utter genius and in another world could have been our bill gates.

I had a commodore but no doubting how good the spectrums were.

RIP Clive a true British pioneer
 
Nice tribute from Dominic Diamond (yes that one)

All your UK videogame companies today were built on the shoulders of giants who made games for the ZX Spectrum. You cannot exaggerate Sir Clive Sinclair’s influence on the world. And if we’d all stopped laughing long enough to buy a C5 he’d probably have saved the environment.
 
I remember going with my mates up to my friends house up to his bed room and him booting up his ZX 81 spectrum.
It was black and white there was no sound but wow we were mesmerised.

as I say I’ve always been a commodore fan ( vic 64 Amiga etc) but I’ll never forget how I felt when I first saw that spectrum.

it really was the future little did we know how things would develop.
 
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R.I.P

Played mostly Elite on the Spectrum with 3 of us gathered round a screen and still play Elite Dangerous on the PC today

Amazing technology at the time for me as a kid

Laughed at his C5 but as said above way ahead of it`s time and underrated in regards to how it could have helped the environment
 
zorro_mfc said:
An utter genius and in another world could have been our bill gates.

I had a commodore but no doubting how good the spectrums were.

RIP Clive a true British pion
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boroboy6872 said:
R.I.P

Played mostly Elite on the Spectrum with 3 of us gathered round a screen and still play Elite Dangerous on the PC today

Amazing technology at the time for me as a kid

Laughed at his C5 but as said above way ahead of it`s time and underrated in regards to how it could have helped the environment
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Forget the C5. it was a no go. However, I loved my mate's 48k. The rubber keys were the stuff of dreams. I had an Amstrad but the Speccy always seemed Mohave cooler stuff (it didn't but it seemed that way). The bloke did well.
 
Absolutely loved playing chuckie egg and manic miner and hated the noise of loading the cassette (that failed to load the game occasionally.)
 
Had already been programming industrial computers for a few years when the ZX came out, thought it was a massive game changer. As said could have been the UK Bill Gates, but was quiet, unassuming and didnt like the limelight.
RIP sir.
 
Had the pleasure to meet him once. I asked him what his first business venture was. He said it was buying bags of unbranded transistors and tested them for gain.(Hfe).Any that were high gain he re-branded them MAT100

And subsequently gems like this:

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RIP🙏

I spent so many hours of my young life playing on the ZX Spectrum +

Who can forget Monty Mole / Yie Ar Kung-fu and Outrun. Just absolute gaming classics.

It was only a few months ago that my 80 year old mum said it was the best and most used present they ever bought me (although I didn't realise how much it cost them... At the time a fair few quid).
 
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