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Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (30 July 1940 – 16 September 2021)

Started byVir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid>
First post2021-09-16 21:36 +0100
Last post2021-09-18 08:15 -0700
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  Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (30 July 1940 – 16 September 2021) Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2021-09-16 21:36 +0100
    Re: Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (30 July 1940 – 16 September 2021) Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2021-09-16 17:28 -0400
    Re: Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (30 July 1940 – 16 September 2021) Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> - 2021-09-16 22:43 +0000
      Re: Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (30 July 1940 – 16 September 2021) Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-09-17 07:32 +0100
        Re: Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (30 July 1940 – 16 September 2021) "John" <John@nospam.please> - 2021-09-17 12:31 +0100
          Re: Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (30 July 1940 – 16 September 2021) Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-09-17 13:29 +0100
          Re: Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (30 July 1940 – 16 September 2021) maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2021-09-17 18:13 +0000
      Re: Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (30 July 1940 – 16 September 2021) maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2021-09-17 09:31 +0000
        Re: Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (30 July 1940 – 16 September 2021) Andy Leighton <andyl@azaal.plus.com> - 2021-09-17 10:13 -0500
    Re: Sir Clive Marles Sinclair D.J. <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2021-09-17 09:09 -0500
      Re: Sir Clive Marles Sinclair "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2021-09-17 17:20 +0100
      Re: Sir Clive Marles Sinclair "Kurt Weiske" <kurt.weiske@realitycheckbbs.org.remove-v0l-this> - 2021-09-18 08:15 -0700

#218860 — Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (30 July 1940 – 16 September 2021)

FromVir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid>
Date2021-09-16 21:36 +0100
SubjectSir Clive Marles Sinclair (30 July 1940 – 16 September 2021)
Message-ID<si09t5$uth$3@dont-email.me>
Just heard he died today.

Andy

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#218863

FromAndreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net>
Date2021-09-16 17:28 -0400
Message-ID<87ee9ofbwi.fsf@usenet.ankman.de>
In reply to#218860
On Thu, 16 Sep 2021 21:36:52 +0100, Vir Campestris wrote:
>
> Just heard he died today.

Aww, damn! :-(

For those interested to see the fight (even with fists) between Sinclair
and Acorn, search Youtube for "Micro Men" from 2009.
-- 
Andreas

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#218868

FromBob Eager <news0009@eager.cx>
Date2021-09-16 22:43 +0000
Message-ID<iqhvjkFqfqgU13@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#218860
On Thu, 16 Sep 2021 21:36:52 +0100, Vir Campestris wrote:

> Just heard he died today.

I used to sell his radios (Micro 6 etc.) in the mid 1960s.

-- 
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#218873

FromAhem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net>
Date2021-09-17 07:32 +0100
Message-ID<20210917073203.53ee032e85d900efa53287df@eircom.net>
In reply to#218868
On 16 Sep 2021 22:43:00 GMT
Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Sep 2021 21:36:52 +0100, Vir Campestris wrote:
> 
> > Just heard he died today.
> 
> I used to sell his radios (Micro 6 etc.) in the mid 1960s.

	A little later than that I got an Antex model C and a matchbox
radio kit. That was not the best way to learn to solder but I did
eventually make it work.

	I spent my early career in Cambridge chasing down jobs with anyone
but Sinclair or Acorn (Torch was too close really). I'd met too many people
who'd worked for them - including one who had the misfortune to work for
both (on the MK14 and the Electron - you may now try and guess who he is).

	He was a wonderful character, from a suitable distance.

	A friend of mine worked on the C5 (among other things doing
environmental testing), he brought one home for a weekend and showed us
some alarming features like the way the top of the front part could be
pushed to the ground ... with one hand and the way that rolling it
backwards would blow the diode that protected the motor relay contacts from
reverse EMF spikes so that one day soon it would weld closed and the motor
wouldn't stop until the battery ran out.

	Apparently racing the twin battery (with series/parallel switch)
version[5] with the heavy duty washing machine motor was hair raising fun,
they got up to about 30mph and cornered rather excitingly on two wheels.

[5] Never released of course, pure internal hackery for the test track.

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#218876

From"John" <John@nospam.please>
Date2021-09-17 12:31 +0100
Message-ID<si1ubk$qve$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#218873

"Ahem A Rivet's Shot"  wrote in message 
news:20210917073203.53ee032e85d900efa53287df@eircom.net...


>A friend of mine worked on the C5 (among other things doing
>environmental testing), he brought one home for a weekend and showed us
>some alarming features like the way the top of the front part could be
>pushed to the ground ... with one hand and the way that rolling it
>backwards would blow the diode that protected the motor relay contacts from
>reverse EMF spikes so that one day soon it would weld closed and the motor
>wouldn't stop until the battery ran out.

>Apparently racing the twin battery (with series/parallel switch)
>version[5] with the heavy duty washing machine motor was hair raising fun,
>they got up to about 30mph and cornered rather excitingly on two wheels.


Even better - Google Jet powered C5!

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#218877

FromAhem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net>
Date2021-09-17 13:29 +0100
Message-ID<20210917132954.ff7c2c84568079ec61e0cf07@eircom.net>
In reply to#218876
On Fri, 17 Sep 2021 12:31:41 +0100
"John" <John@nospam.please> wrote:

> Even better - Google Jet powered C5! 

	Pure insanity, please nobody let Colin Furze have one.

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#218886

Frommaus <maus@dmaus.org>
Date2021-09-17 18:13 +0000
Message-ID<slrnsk9mmd.ddv.maus@dmaus.org>
In reply to#218876
On 2021-09-17, John <John@nospam.please> wrote:
>
>
> "Ahem A Rivet's Shot"  wrote in message 
> news:20210917073203.53ee032e85d900efa53287df@eircom.net...
>
>
>>A friend of mine worked on the C5 (among other things doing
>>environmental testing), he brought one home for a weekend and showed us
>>some alarming features like the way the top of the front part could be
>>pushed to the ground ... with one hand and the way that rolling it
>>backwards would blow the diode that protected the motor relay contacts from
>>reverse EMF spikes so that one day soon it would weld closed and the motor
>>wouldn't stop until the battery ran out.
>
>>Apparently racing the twin battery (with series/parallel switch)
>>version[5] with the heavy duty washing machine motor was hair raising fun,
>>they got up to about 30mph and cornered rather excitingly on two wheels.
>
>
> Even better - Google Jet powered C5! 
>
 

 Cool!.. even looks safer than some of the things that children run
 around city streets

-- 
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Down the wrong mousehole.

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#218875

Frommaus <maus@dmaus.org>
Date2021-09-17 09:31 +0000
Message-ID<slrnsk8o43.5eh.maus@dmaus.org>
In reply to#218868
On 2021-09-16, Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Sep 2021 21:36:52 +0100, Vir Campestris wrote:
>
>> Just heard he died today.
>
> I used to sell his radios (Micro 6 etc.) in the mid 1960s.
>

He tried developing a small car, to reverse it you got out and pushed it
back. I think he was like the mad professor in back to the future.

Inventor of many gadgets that never really worked, Microdrive, etc.

I was always sorry that I  didn't buy a C64 instead. 

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Down the wrong mousehole.

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#218881

FromAndy Leighton <andyl@azaal.plus.com>
Date2021-09-17 10:13 -0500
Message-ID<slrnsk9c4k.3r09e.andyl@azaal.plus.com>
In reply to#218875
On 17 Sep 2021 09:31:47 GMT, maus <maus@dmaus.org> wrote:
> On 2021-09-16, Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> wrote:
>> On Thu, 16 Sep 2021 21:36:52 +0100, Vir Campestris wrote:
>>
>>> Just heard he died today.
>>
>> I used to sell his radios (Micro 6 etc.) in the mid 1960s.
>>
>
> He tried developing a small car, to reverse it you got out and pushed it
> back. I think he was like the mad professor in back to the future.
>
> Inventor of many gadgets that never really worked, Microdrive, etc.

Maybe I should dig out the QL and the Cub monitor and see if it still
works.  The last time I played with it everything was OK (even read
the microdrives well) - although that was about a dozen years ago.

-- 
Andy Leighton => andyl@azaal.plus.com
"We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!"
   - Douglas Adams

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#218878 — Re: Sir Clive Marles Sinclair

FromD.J. <chucktheouch@gmail.com>
Date2021-09-17 09:09 -0500
SubjectRe: Sir Clive Marles Sinclair
Message-ID<vb89kg97mi853am6k81q1s3kjv5vebbmde@4ax.com>
In reply to#218860
On Thu, 16 Sep 2021 21:36:52 +0100, Vir Campestris
<vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>Just heard he died today.
>
>Andy

Yes, I saw him mentioned on BBC America.

I bought the Sinclair ZX-81, and later the 16kilobyte ram pack. I used
it for months.

( I had to edit the subject line, due to reject by eternal-september
server)

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#218884 — Re: Sir Clive Marles Sinclair

From"Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1>
Date2021-09-17 17:20 +0100
SubjectRe: Sir Clive Marles Sinclair
Message-ID<20210917172041.4f23188e2e193be8ecb3645a@127.0.0.1>
In reply to#218878
On Fri, 17 Sep 2021 09:09:35 -0500
D.J. <chucktheouch@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Sep 2021 21:36:52 +0100, Vir Campestris
> <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> >Just heard he died today.
> >
> >Andy
> 
> Yes, I saw him mentioned on BBC America.
> 
> I bought the Sinclair ZX-81, and later the 16kilobyte ram pack. I used
> it for months.

You couldn't do much without it!; 'ware the infamous wobbly connection.

> ( I had to edit the subject line, due to reject by eternal-september
> server)


-- 
Bah, and indeed Humbug.

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#218941 — Re: Sir Clive Marles Sinclair

From"Kurt Weiske" <kurt.weiske@realitycheckbbs.org.remove-v0l-this>
Date2021-09-18 08:15 -0700
SubjectRe: Sir Clive Marles Sinclair
Message-ID<614C9B06.605.news.afc@realitycheckbbs.org>
In reply to#218878
  To: D.J.
-=> D.J. wrote to alt.folklore.computers <=-

 D.> Yes, I saw him mentioned on BBC America.

 D.> I bought the Sinclair ZX-81, and later the 16kilobyte ram pack. I used
 D.> it for months.

You wouldn't get carpal tunnel, you'd get calluses on the tips of your 
fingers from that membrane keyboard. I had to use gaffa tape to try and keep 
the contacts on the memory expansion connected, otherwise 3/4 of the way 
into typing a program into it, you'd bump the case and it'd freeze or 
reboot.

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