Los Havros (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Micro Men- Drama from the BBC looking at the 1980s when Clive Sinclair and Chris Curry competed for dominance of the emerging home computer market. An interesting retrospective on the origins of computing and gaming today. Well worth a watch on iPlayer. Only available till 19/10/09.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Anyone who spent the early 1980s rewinding a squealing tape player in an attempt to load Lunar Lander on to a Sinclair ZX81 or Jet Set Willy on to a Spectrum will have been transported back to their youth by the BBC4 film Micro Men , repeated tonight. They will also have been in for a shock. Back in the 80s Clive Sinclair was the face of Britain's technological future, one part...
The Gamesblog (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Alexander Armstrong and Martin Freeman play Clive Sinclair and Chris Curry two Brits who beat the giant tech firms in Silicon Valley There's a singular set of first memories that many of us share of our first experience with a home computer. The satisfying give of the keys on the black, cumbersome keyboard; a constantly whirring cassette tape, or pleasingly tactile floppy disk; the jarringly...
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
You may remember Clive Sinclair as the inventor of the pocket calculator, but you may not realize that his company still exists . In fact, Sinclair released a super-compact, folding " A-Bike " only a few years ago. It still lives! Truth be told, seeing an image of the Sinclair Sovereign on Boing Boing Gadgets this morning sparked a wave of nostalgia among those...
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
You may remember Clive Sinclair as the inventor of the pocket calculator, but you may not realize that his company still exists . In fact, Sinclair released a super-compact, folding " A-Bike " only a few years ago. Truth be told, seeing an image of the Sinclair Sovereign on Boing Boing Gadgets this morning sparked a wave of nostalgia among those of us here who...
Ollie's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
... and thought it looked good, especially Alexander Armstrong's appearance as megalomaniac Sir Clive Sinclair. Thoroughly enjoyable, nicely done and it taught me a few things about computing in the early 80s, which was even before my time. Britain really were the forerunners of the market, only to later give way to the American giants of today, as we well know. Right, I am off to get...
Bitterwallet (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
If you were watching BBC4 last night, you probably saw a glorious docu-drama about the rise and rise of Sir Clive Sinclair, one of the pioneering figures in UK tech stuff (it ended just before his inglorious fall). As well as the mighty ZX Spectrum, it should never be forgotten that he came up with [...]
Techno Portal (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
You may remember Clive Sinclair as the inventor of the pocket calculator, but you may not realize that his company still exists . In fact, Sinclair released a super-compact, folding " A-Bike " only a few years ago. Truth be told, seeing an image of the Sinclair Sovereign on Boing Boing Gadgets this… Continue reading
Gizmodo Australia (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
You may remember Clive Sinclair as the inventor of the pocket calculator, but you may not realise that his company still exists . In fact, Sinclair released a super-compact, folding “ A-Bike ” only a few years ago. (more…)
IT Sneak (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Clive Sinclair is a well-known figure in the UK and has widely been credited with bringing the computer out of the lab and into the home. Sneak has been lucky enough to have a sneak preview of a new comedy...
Retro Thing (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
Sir Clive Sinclair has a never-ending fascination with small things. He started with pocket radios, moved on to pocket calculators, and released a line of really small computers in the 1980s. It stands to reason that he'd also try his...
JonnyB's private secret diary (Free subscription) | yesterday
... all my mates. US television is utterly technically inept. The picture is rubbish, the graphics are Clive Sinclair-standard, they regularly cut away accidentally from the end of bits they shouldn’t cut away from, or leave long pauses where the producer presumably should have done something. This ineptitude partially explains why many people think the content itself is useless. Whereas...
[Geeks are Sexy] (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
After the ZX81 and BBC Micro, the last non-PC computer in my house growing up was Amstrad’s PCW8256. That’s somewhat appropriate given my recent review of Micro Men, which ended with ZX81 maker Clive Sinclair and BBC Micro maker Chris Currie bemoaning the way the market had been taken over by Amstrad’s Alan Sugar. The PCW8256 [...] Related posts: Remembering: The BBC...
[Geeks are Sexy] (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
After the ZX81 and BBC Micro, the last non-PC computer in my house growing up was Amstrad’s PCW8256. That’s somewhat appropriate given my recent review of Micro Men, which ended with ZX81 maker Clive Sinclair and BBC Micro maker Chris Currie bemoaning the way the market had been taken over by Amstrad’s Alan Sugar. The PCW8256 [...] Related posts: Remembering: The BBC...
