Posted By
Doug
on 2021-09-16
18:19:03
|  Re: Sir Clive Sinclair has died, father of the ZX Spectrum!
It's hard to overstate Sir Clive's contribution. He was responsible for introducing a whole generation of kids to computers. The Spectrum literally exploded onto the scene in the early 80s. You could walk into a shop like WH Smiths (a news agents!) and just buy one for a fraction of the cost of its competitors. And that's all that mattered. Rich kids had BBC micros, discerning individuals (like me) went for Commodores but everyone else had Speccies. And they hugely outnumbered us. Personally I never cared for the machine, but a hell of a lot of people did. I've lost count of how many coders I've worked with over the years who say it was the Spectrum that got them coding.
Thank you Sir Clive.
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