Sinclair Research are still in business

I had no idea that Sinclair Research were still in business - here is the evidence:

http://www.sinclair-research.co.uk/


I just happened to be bored and Googled on the Legendary "Sir Clive Sinclair".

1972, marketed the world's first pocket calculator
1976 marketed the first digital watch
1977 marketed the first pocket television.
Not forgetting the legendary ZX81 and Spectrum range of computers (the ZX80 was not so well known)

I must point out that he was English too - probably likes a rasher or two of bacon.

Why does every puki post mention bacon? It's as bad as ENAY and his cheese!

P.S. - The Spectrum ROCKED and some of the games are still playable today. So there. :)

Unfortunately he doesn't make computers anymore.

I found this baby too - it is full of games to play:

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/

Blimey, but I suspect the CEO is a certain Mr Sugar rather than Sir Clive though? Or did the old hotspur sell it on?

I thought it was exceptionally good form when Alan Sugar gave away the Spectrum ROM and allowed it's use in emulators. Top notch.

I still dont like football though.

Interesting find, Pukes.

Saw a TV piece a while back on 'Sir' Clive. He wanted to make personal aerial transport a reality and reckoned you would need powerful electric motors for vertical takeoff and landing.

The all time classic, though, was a few years ago when he had a fling with some young model and she sold her story to a paper. She actually painted a decent picture of him and said he was a nice guy, but I think some of the story was quite personal. When Clive was asked to comment on the fact that she had kissed and told, his only reply was 'She's a lovely girl.'

yeah he never made anything as good as the speccy again. I remember when Sugar bought it cos the +2 and +3 looked all Amstrad. The +2 had a major flaw, NO TAPE COUNTER! Unlike every C64 deck of course.

Amstrad (Alan Sugar) didn't buy Sinclair Research, but rather bought the rights to the Spectrum. They then released the +2 (1986, built in tape deck) and +3 (1987, built in disc drive).

They also released the +2a and +2b, I can't remember the exact differences except that the +2 was grey, and the +2a/b was black like the original Spectrum (and looked better for it!).

The +3 was black and had that disk drive that took Amstrad CPC disks, double sided too irrc. A friend and I bough a kit that allowed you to transfer games from tape to disk. Sounded like a freeze frame in the advert but actaully it was a tiny leaflet that said how to hack into the loaders and extract all the code and copy it to disk. It was actaully pretty technical and you had to know machine code, which we learnt. Loads of people must have complained when they got this crappy leadlet, but in the end it worked for us. It was such a revelation having games load super quick from disk. Later I got a freeze frame for my C64 and never looked back!

Respect! :) I still have a stack of books on how to learn Z80 etc, including a couple of classic Melbourne House ones. I plan to stick them on eBay soon, as I suspect my chance to write commercial Spectrum software has passed...

The website won't load. I keep getting "R Tape loading error".

I'll get my coat...

lol @ big10P. You haven't got the volume set on 7.23 that's why, perhaps it's on 7.20 or 7.25, or maybe someone entered the room too loudly and confused it. Thank god C64 had a built in no worries tape recorder!

lol, maybe ...

Actually there are still a handful of active Spectrum software publishers ! I think one advertises on Worldofspectrum.org.

If you learn Russian, the Spectrum is still manufactured there (it's an unlicensed clone).

Amstrad might buy something for their Em@iler machines (built in Spectrum emulator with downloadable games).

Yeah, Cronosoft for one. I can't remember any others off hand, but they do strike me as a *little* too dedicated to the humble Speccy. Still, if they enjoy doing it that's all that matters!


Cool! I'm on it. ;)

See you in Moscow, dovorish :)

I didnt know what 'integer out of range' actually meant until 10 years after I stopped using the speccy

Didnt Sir Clive make that little scooter thingy, and it bombed?

I cannot remember what it's called... Probably the Sinclair!

Dabz

Sinclair C5



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before the ZX80, etc. there was the Science of Cambridge Mark14. I had one... you programmed it in hex and read answers off the led display



The MK14 specification :-

1/2k ROM Monitor
256 bytes RAM (expandable to 640 bytes on board and 2170 bytes total)
8 (or 9) Red LED seven segment display.
20 key keyboard and reset switch
Optional 16 I/O lines available by adding a IC
No sound card (design provided)
No backing store (cassette and PROM storage an optional extra)
Optional VDU supporting 32x16 text or 64x64 graphics

wow that think is cool in a VERY retro way.