Sir Clive Sinclair Dies
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Use older folks grew up with Clive's inventions. RIP Clive.
Publison
Posts: 12,366
Use older folks grew up with Clive's inventions. RIP Clive.
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I bought his failed Black Watch kit also.
...gee Pub - what don't you have?!
LOL
It's long gone.
Yes. I was impressed with mine even tho you had to be careful as it twisted and failed.
Timex/Sinclair Computer from a local drugstore!
In 1980 I was in high school and at lucntimes used to frequent the electronics club.
We did a sponsored bike ride to raise money for the kit version of the ZX80 and then assembled the it, each taking turns soldering different compenents.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX80
Electrronics club became Computer club shortly after
RIP Sir Clive, you inspired a generation of engineers and software developers.
i used to have one of those too.
neat little computer for its day
I did a lot of work with it too.
It's complicated... !!!
I still have my Timex Sinclair and a few Commodore 64s in the attic. Good times! When I built my very first robot for the inaugural Trinity Firefighting Robot contest, I planned to use a Timex Sinclair. That was until I saw an ad in Nuts & Volts IIRC for the BASIC Stamp. And the rest is history! https://web.archive.org/web/20210707215939/https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-1994-04-18-9404180144-story.html
so that is how you got addicted to Parallax?
Just joking,
Mike
Hi
Apparently-
but seems to have had the opposite effect (in erco's case) of designing robots to set fire to things!!!
Dave
As Letterman said, "get into the forbidden to explore the boundaries"...
Wow, all y'all that got to play with a Sinclair way back when. Small, low cost, easy to build and move... Had to build my IMSAI "Johnny Cash" style, one board at a time. 'Course I should not feel too deprived as one of you guys had to have a garage sized space for your own "home" computer. Funny how someone can make such a difference with just the right turn down just the right path at just the right time. We forget how many wrong turns get made in the journey. Three left turns do make a right. His was an interesting read. Right up there with Kildall, Bushnel, and a bunch of others from that era.
Just one question... Was there ever a version (text based of course) of Adventure? Something about a cave...
Hello!
Yes to your question there is. It is found on the majority of Linux systems. I have it on the Slackware 11 system I am running now for example. I first played it on an Apple running Gary's CP/M OS.
Now why are there a crowd of hungry bobcats descending on the offices of Parallax?
I remember one Christmas taking my nylon shirt off and grounding everything before soldering in the chips of the scientific calculator kit. I still have that, but sadly no lights anymore. Later I wire wrapped together a Spectrum clone - I worked for Ferranti who made the 40 pin 'glue' chip for that computer. I wonder if that still works?
Hi
didn't Ferranti make a chip for the BBC Micro? Seem to recall they squeezed a board load of logic onto a gate array for the video.
Dave
Yes, Uncommitted Logic Array was the name. They required a factory mask change but design changes were a lot cheaper and quicker than custom layout. The tech later morphed into the FPGA.