Clive Sinclair dies
Changed my life forever. I have an attic full of his products. Saved my teenage life, he really did
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The stuff in your attic has now become more collectable.
I had one of his Cambridge calculators, which was quite advanced, and affordable, for the time.
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Varmint, Thu 16 Sep 2021, 18:41,
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I don't think that I ever managed to progamme the 80 or 81 without it crashing
I'm still shit with computers, but I liked his vision and ideas and resilience.
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unclepills, Thu 16 Sep 2021, 19:38,
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We've come to the end of the C90
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Thu 16 Sep 2021, 21:20,
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the british zx spectrum and the american C64 were released around the same time in australia
generally I thought my parents made the best call with a c64, but I quite liked the spectrums "lords of midnight", and the zx did look cooler in black.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 16 Sep 2021, 23:41,
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Funny how the obituaries don't mention his former pole-dancing ex wife.
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The ZX81 put me off gaming for life.
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Fri 17 Sep 2021, 16:03,
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I can see how it might.
Pong had better gameplay and controls.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Fri 17 Sep 2021, 20:53,
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Shane's he's gone, but did they ever do anything good?
Yes the calculator, I suppose, but the computers were shite (yes I had a c64 so suck my balls), the watch was shite and the little bike was also shite.
He made a fortune out of it all and was apparently fucking bonkers to be around, so hats off to him. Can Alan Sugar please be next, lord?
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