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What (who) is Clive Sinclair - definition

ENGLISH ENTREPRENEUR AND INVENTOR (1940–2021)
Sir Clive Sinclair; Clive Marles Sinclair; Sir Clive Marles Sinclair; Sinclair, Clive
  • [[Sinclair Executive]] pocket calculator (launched in 1972)
  • Sinclair on an X-Bike prototype
  • The ZX80 home computer was launched in 1980.
  • The [[ZX Spectrum]] (introduced in 1982)

Clive Sinclair         
<person> Sir Clive Sinclair (1939- ) The British inventor who pioneered the home microcomputer market in the early 1980s, with the introduction of low-cost, easy to use, 8-bit computers produced by his company, Sinclair Research. Sir Clive also invented and produced a variety of electronic devices from the 1960s to 1990s, including pocket calculators (he marketed the first pocket calculator in the world), radios and televisions. Perhaps he is most famous (or some might say notorious) for his range electric vehicles, especially the Sinclair C5, introduced in 1985. He has been a member of MENSA, the high IQ society, since 1962. sinclair/">Planet Sinclair (http://nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/). ["The Sinclair Story", Rodney Dale, pub. Duckworth 1985] (1998-11-09)
Sinclair, Clive         
William Sinclair (archdeacon of London)         
  • The Venerable Archdeacon Sinclair in the pulpit of St Paul's Cathedral, London
ARCHDEACON OF LONDON
William Macdonald Sinclair; William Sinclair (archdeacon); William Sinclair (son); William Sinclair (Archdeacon of London)
William Macdonald Sinclair (1850–1917) was an eminent Anglican priest and author in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Clive Sinclair

Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (30 July 1940 – 16 September 2021) was an English entrepreneur and inventor, best known for being a pioneer in the computing industry and also as the founder of several companies that developed consumer electronics in the 1970s and early 1980s.

After spending several years as assistant editor of Instrument Practice, Sinclair founded Sinclair Radionics Ltd in 1961. He produced the world's first slimline electronic pocket calculator (the Sinclair Executive) in 1972. Sinclair then moved into the production of home computers in 1980 with Sinclair Research Ltd, producing the Sinclair ZX80 (the UK's first mass-market home computer for less than £100) and in the early 1980s, the ZX81, ZX Spectrum and the Sinclair QL. Sinclair Research is widely recognised for its importance in the early days of the British and European home computer industry, as well as helping to give rise to the British video game industry.

Sinclair also had several commercial failures, including the Sinclair Radionics Black Watch wristwatch, the Sinclair Vehicles C5 battery electric vehicle, and the Sinclair Research TV80 flatscreen CRT handheld television set. The failure of the C5, along with a weakened computer market, forced Sinclair to sell most of his companies by 1986. Through 2010, Sinclair concentrated on personal transport, including the A-bike, a folding bicycle for commuters which was small enough to fit in a handbag. He also developed the Sinclair X-1, a revised version of the C5 electric vehicle, which never made it to the market.

Sinclair was appointed Knight Bachelor in the 1983 Birthday Honours for his contributions to the personal computer industry in the UK.

Examples of use of Clive Sinclair
1. You know the sort of thing: ‘It‘s daft‘, ‘It‘ll never work‘, ‘Remember the C5‘. This is, after all, Sir Clive Sinclair we are talking about.
2. In 1'87, the early boom in British computer manufacturing initiated by Clive Sinclair, Alan Sugar and other less–remembered geeks and entrepreneurs was already deflating.
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