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Sir.Tj

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Sir Clive is without a doubt in my mind a true genius.

The ZX80 a friend had was the 1st computer I ever saw..

It was pretty much game over for me from that point on.

Got a ZX48k for about £150 and spent many happy hours mashing the rubber keys.
 

Ian Phillips

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The C5 was Awesome. I saw someone driving one between London buses and lorries on the badly maintained roads in Peckham. He had WW I pilot goggles, helmet and a white silk scarf streaming out behind him (held there on a wire framework). :D
 
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Hell Razor5543

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James May had a 3 part series on cars recently. I missed the first 2 episodes, but the last one was on what were (at their times) futuristic cars. The Sinclair C5 was one of them. James ended up driving it around Milton Keynes (and was somewhat nervous when a lorry was behind him!). The C5 was also named after Sir Clive Sinclair. They both have the same first initial, and the 5 is because Clive has 5 letters.
 
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Surfinjo

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You have to admire Sir Clive Sinclair's persistent quest to develop products that are guaranteed to not make money.
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The guy makes and effort. Some things are successful, other not.

His principal detractor was Allan Sugar who wanted his own computer business to overtake Sinclair. We forget the many flops that Amstrad created. Not least their disastrous attempt to corner the floppy disc market with their 3 inch nonsense. It was about as reliable as tape and only slightly faster.

The business policies of the 80s are mostly forgotten now. The numerous computer companies, each with their own formats, totally incompatible to any others. That eventually led to the predominance of the IBM compatible simply because the big boys all used it.

We forget the Tape players for Commodore which cost as much as the computer and how you couldn't use a standard Tape Player because of a singly handshake bit!

We forget the so called next generation machines, such as Acorns Risc OS with Hard drive that cost £400 to the £500 for the computer. They supplied a set of 5.25" floppys but unfortunately to use the machine you needed to insert a different floppy each time you entered a command. Soon the floppys stopped working and Acorn refused to replace them, insisting you bought a Hard Drive.

Sinclair took the sensible decision and walked away early and survived to join a different industry altogether.

He could see it was a game for wolves.

The winner was Sugar. Not because he has any brains, he doesn't but because he's a ******* and is currently selling that dubious quality in shows claiming to be about business.
 

starman

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"The business policies of the 80s are mostly forgotten now. The numerous computer companies, each with their own formats, totally incompatible to any others. That eventually led to the predominance of the IBM compatible simply because the big boys all used it. "

Hello - Windows OSX Linux Andriod iphone Sony xbox exclusive title releases Amazon netflix? Blue ray multiple

All car manufacturers....

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is this the future of transport http://blog.ted.com/elon-musk-unveils-his-plans-for-the-hyperloop/

[video=youtube;XXBxV6-zamM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXBxV6-zamM[/video] a must watch
 
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