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Sir Clive Sinclair Innovator Extraordinary

Mention the name Sinclair to a technologist of a certain age and expect a lively…

17 September 2021

Sir Clive Sinclair

Sir Clive Sinclair is a well-known British entrepreneur and inventor of the world’s first ‘slim-line’ electronic pocket calculator in 1972 (Sinclair Executive) and the ZX80, ZX81 and ZX Spectrum computers in the late 1970s and early 1980s, amongst many other things.

6 September 2019

David Southward

David Southward was a co-founder of Cambridge Consultants in 1960 as a fresh graduate from Cambridge: the foundation of CC is considered to be the start of the Cambridge Phenomenon. The first digital computer he saw after working on analogue computers was a Digital Equipment PDP/11. He went on to become technical director of Sinclair Research working closely with Sir Clive Sinclair. There he helped design the screen for Sinclair’s miniature tv, a storage device for the Sinclair microcomputers and a printer for them.

28 June 2019

Modernising industry

Since the beginning of the millennium, there are more people using the internet than ever…

22 February 2019
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