Portable computers are the future! - Clive Sinclair - Database

Portable computers are the future! - Clive Sinclair - Database - 1985

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@kman5802 3 жыл бұрын

Rip Clive .. ahead of the game

@eddiepurple 8 жыл бұрын

Bless him!

@TJasienski 9 ай бұрын

It feels strange to watch this on 12” iPad Pro, which effectively replaced my need for a regular computer. Sir Clive perfectly points out the key challenges for making a good portable computer that are still relevant for iPad - the screen and the battery. The only thing iPad is missing is microdrive ;)

@DavidGloverAoki 8 жыл бұрын

My right ear really enjoyed that.

@bradymccue1451 4 жыл бұрын

@AcornElectron 3 жыл бұрын

I forced my iPad through an amp and mono adapter before my headphones. Not stereo but at least it was a balanced 2 minutes. 😂

@martinwashington3152 3 жыл бұрын

I'm actually glad you mentioned this.. I have myself been wondering for over a year or more which is left and right on these headphones and me being lazy has paid off presently because I now know I have mine on the wrong way around :D -Cheers buddy :D

@wisteela 3 жыл бұрын

I didn't notice, and it wasn't an issue. I'm using a TV as a monitor.

@djsherz 4 жыл бұрын

Sinclair might have had a very different future had it not been for the bloody Microdrives.

@davidkmatthews 4 жыл бұрын

Well, of course, the future *was* very different for Sinclair! The Microdrives were under-developed in terms of robustness and reliability but I think they were the least of "Uncle Clive's" self-inflicted injuries: the QL and the C5 trike were what really sank his ship... although at least Alan Sugar not only kept the best-selling ZX Spectrum alive until the early 1990s, he launched considerably improved versions of it. :-)

@AcornElectron 3 жыл бұрын

Microdrives were really just another example of Sinclair doing a Cyberpunk 2077.

@justinowdfart8155 Ай бұрын

…and the ridiculous thermal printer

@MaestroDrake 5 жыл бұрын

Maybe Sir Clive should take over the ZX Vega project, yeah?

@Wagoo 7 жыл бұрын

I wonder what happened to this display technology that gave a CRT like picture with LCD like power consumption??

@mikiex 7 жыл бұрын

Wagoo that was the Hungarian tech in the flat portable screen.

@mikiex 7 жыл бұрын

Clive was always right but always 20yrs ahead of his time.

@peter486 Жыл бұрын

im sweidish i cant get get my hand around this back in the 80´s there where so m any great British hardwhare companys and most of the game companys where british its so sad that all that is gone i 2023. think about it, Spectrum, Amstrad , Acorn, Apricot and it all stoped over a night, what the heck happens.? PC?

@urglegurgle5807 9 ай бұрын

Acorn became ARM, which dominates the world in respect of mobile computing. The device that you watched this on may well be powered by one of their chip designs. Alan Sugar (Amstrad) seems to content himself as a media personality who didn’t do as well as his contemporaries, perhaps as he came to the industry as a barrow boy rather than technical wiz (eg Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, etc).

@IExSet 8 жыл бұрын

Fantastic picture on the monitor at background ! Dear Sir Clive, make your new ZX Vega with KEYBOARD (or/and portable LCD screen) !!! Kids need something to start from !

@nathanbutcher7720 8 жыл бұрын

Well he was right about future computer portability - but not until the iPhone. ...and microdrives? Oh my goodness. You have to remember that this was at a time when the concept of flash memory was inconceivable. He ended up releasing the QL before it was ready anyway. And it bombed.

@oscarj0231 5 жыл бұрын

@Castlegrad Wozniak was a legend

@philoffhistree 5 жыл бұрын

@Castlegrad so true but idiots sing the song of jobs fools