Re: 30 minute video from BBC East 1981

From	Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.sinclair
Subject	Re: 30 minute video from BBC East 1981
Date	2011-12-06 15:40 +0000
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On Sun, 4 Dec 2011 20:45:56 -0800 (PST)
Geoff Wearmouth <gwearmouth@gmail.com> wrote:

> There is an incredible 30-minute video from the East Anglian Film
> Archive
> 
> http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/5099
> 
> showing Clive Sinclair in 1981. Great footage showing 6 King's Parade
> - a Lunn Poly travel office on the ground floor.
> Clive getting into his car (Lotus?) and Jim Westwood working on the
> ZX80.

Porsche. 924 I think, given the date. The “cheap” Porsche of its day;
the equivalent now would be the Boxter. As the narration said, it
fits with his obsession with design. Interestingly enough, it was
orignially intended to be sold as a Volkswagen, and although VW pulled
out of the project quite early on, it still had a lot of VAG parts,
including an Audi engine. Which is quite a Sinclair way of going about
things, I suppose, keeping costs down.

A Lotus would have been appropriate too, though. I've always felt
Sinclair and Colin Chapman were very similar characters, in both their
engineering and business sensibilities.

Terrific piece of history, that. Strange to see what looks like the
final design for the pocket TV on his desk long before it was actually
released: not even a passing mention of the '81, Spectrum, or QL.

-- 
Duncan Snowden.

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30 minute video from BBC East 1981 Geoff Wearmouth <gwearmouth@gmail.com> - 2011-12-04 20:45 -0800
  Re: 30 minute video from BBC East 1981 "M.O.B. i L." <mikaelb@df.lth.se> - 2011-12-05 17:19 +0100
  Re: 30 minute video from BBC East 1981 "Paul E Collins" <equi+web@cl4.invalid> - 2011-12-05 18:20 +0000
    Re: 30 minute video from BBC East 1981 "Brian Gaff" <Briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2011-12-05 23:31 +0000
      Re: 30 minute video from BBC East 1981 "Paul E Collins" <equi+web@cl4.invalid> - 2011-12-06 01:35 +0000
  Re: 30 minute video from BBC East 1981 Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net> - 2011-12-06 15:40 +0000

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