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| From | Andy Leighton <andyl@azaal.plus.com> |
| Subject | Re: Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (30 July 1940 – 16 September 2021) |
| References | <si09t5$uth$3@dont-email.me> <iqhvjkFqfqgU13@mid.individual.net> <slrnsk8o43.5eh.maus@dmaus.org> |
| Message-ID | <slrnsk9c4k.3r09e.andyl@azaal.plus.com> (permalink) |
| Date | 2021-09-17 10:13 -0500 |
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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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
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