https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2021\/09\/16\/sir_clive_sinclair\/<\/a><\/p>\nSir Clive Sinclair died on Thursday at home in London after a long illness, his family said today. He was 81.<\/p>\n
The British entrepreneur is perhaps best known for launching the ZX range of cheap microcomputers, which helped bring computing, games, and programming into UK homes in the 1980s, at least.<\/p>\n
This included the ZX80, said to be the UK’s first mass-market home computer for under \u00a3100, the ZX81, and the trusty ZX Spectrum. And then there was the Sinclair QL, which was Sir Clive’s big shot at business.<\/p>\n
A whole generation grew up in Britain mastering coding on these kinds of systems in their bedrooms, and went on to build games and applications we use today.<\/p>\n
Before all that, Sir Clive founded Sinclair Radionics, which produced amplifiers, calculators, and watches, and was a forerunner to his Spectrum-making Sinclair Research. The tech pioneer, who eventually sold his computing biz to Amstrad, was knighted during his computing heyday, in 1983. Sir Clive also took a run at electric vehicles with the C5, and I think we all know how that worked out….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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