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That machine cost an extraordinary £49.95 as a kit, and £69.95 pre-built, and went on to be the biggest selling home computer in both the UK and the US, along with Japanese sales via Mitsui. But it was in 1981, with the release of the ZX81, that Sinclair became a true household name.
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It was so much cheaper that it became an instant success, allowing computers to become something available to ordinary people. The Commodore PET cost £700 (or $795 in the US, equating to approximately $4,000 today). He later formed Science Of Cambridge (later Sinclair Computers, then Sinclair Research), where in 1979 he set out to revolutionize home computing by making an affordable product to rival the expensive personal computers that existed at the time. He died yesterday at the age of 81.īorn in Surrey, England in 1940, Sinclair found success in the 1970s, inventing and developing electronic calculators, through his company Sinclair Radionics. His work created the path to not only gaming, but also the creation of games, by regular people. His inventing the ZX Spectrum home computer in 1980 radically changed the masses’ perception of, and access to, computers. It’s hard to overstate the importance of Sir Clive Sinclair’s role in the world of computing.