Sinclair QL Launch Press Conference 12.01.1984

[@ninaevans4501]

Oh yes........ They were the days. Me and my other half fondly remember all this stuff. We were only 13 year old kids at the time. We are now 52, teenage sweethearts back then, and still going strong. Goodness, how time has passed, and The Late Sir Clive Marles Sinclair is no longer with us. RIP Sir Clive Nina and Wayne ❤️❤️❤️❤️🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🫡🫡🫡🫡😌😌😌😌😌😌😌😌😌

[@EgoShredder]

One of my childhood heroes! A true visionary!

[@ahmadfsalam]

Mine too, never met him, but ironically did eventually meet and get to know Prof. Steve Furber (Senior Acorn ARM processor designer).

[@Slarti]

He had a huge influence on modern IT launching software engineers like myself.

[@gianlucazen741]

Un grande.......troppo avanti per la sua epoca

[@ZEUSDAZ]

Hmm, he doesn't seem as bad tempered as he is in Micro Men :-D

[@ian_b]

That's because that's a hatchet job by the BBC.

[@MarcKloos]

You should look up the Museum of Computer History's channel where 3 of the men depicted in the BBC movie are reviewing that movie: they say some things are definitely true, like that he did have a temper and that he was a chain smoker.

[@adams7405]

Yes...I was expecting him to hurl something at one of the journalists for their stupid questions........

[@StevenOBrien]

​@@MarcKloos In the 30 minute chat afterwards, they lamented how badly Clive was portrayed in the film and said that he was very charming and intelligent in real life.

[@RobBCactive]

@@StevenOBrien they said that the charasmatic side of his personality was left out, but explicitly that the abuse & tantrums were realistic. The drama was entertainment so traits were exaggerated to be clearer

[@madcommodore]

They should have called it the Sinclair ET (Eight/Thirty two). He probably should have set his sights higher than PC XT CGA + PC speaker spec and for once in his life picked a keyboard mechanism a secretary wouldn't curse having to use.

[@lisboagarage3300]

This guy is a genius, like Steve Jobs but from UK.

[@MarcKloos]

-was 😢

[@RobBCactive]

Flawed, you obviously didn't buy a QL or a C5, nevermind a ZX81 RAM extension.

[@bricethompson1922]

@@RobBCactive nobody's perfect also the c5 was ahead of its time it could work now though

[@RobBCactive]

@@bricethompson1922 few people want to be road kill

[@AlainHubert]

Now that I've seen what Sir Clive Sinclair actually looked, and sounded like, I can't help but feel that his portrayal in the BBC movie Micro Men (2009) was rather in poor taste, with that ridiculous-looking orange fake hair and almost always aggressive demeanor.

[@BatManSWG]

So sad, all these computer factories around Europe wiped and home computer market dominated by Microsoft.Gates appear from the shadows at end of 80's, offer nothing to technology compare with companies like Amstrad, Commodore, Dragon, Acorn, Sinclair and many others. Most worse when Motorola bankrupt, leaving Commodore and Atari to fall. With uncetairn feature of 68000 platform, software houses stop supporting these CPUs. At least Amiga survive longer but the swich to PPC platform was not supported as expected. Plus the prices of PPC accelerators was so high, so anyone could build a good PC with less price.And Amiga abandoned too to massives.Tho the platform still exist (Amiga One) but so few follow it . And we must not forget Acorn. Without this company we would never had the mobiles we have today! Every single mobile, have ARM CPU, Thanks to the great minds of Steven Feber and Rogen Whilson.A plan from 1984 ,become reality after decades

[@valenrn8657]

Raspberry Pi has passed 40 million units. Acorn created ARM to address Commodore's MOS 65xx CPU R&D roadmap issues. BBC Micro used MOS 65xx CPU and efffectively a near dead-end CPU. Jack Tramiel's Commodore bought MOS Technologies and run it to the ground. *Commodore SemiConductor Group (CSG)'s MOS 65xx CPU R&D wasn't keeping up wth Intel's X86 evolution pace.* Many CSG/MOS 65xx CPU platform vendors switched to Motorola's 68K. Don't blame Wintel's rise for Jack Tramiel's toy company mindset. Amiga's 68060 and PPC accelerators have a "Phase 5" Made In Germany overhead cost problem. PPC and 68060 costs are not the problem. I have the wholesale price data for the year 1994 68060. Blame Made In Germany tax, overheads, and profit expectation. My low-cost Raspberry Pi 3A+ and 4B are made in the UK via Sony's UK manufacturing plants and I use them for PiStorm/PiStorm32 Lite Emu68.

[@dglcomputers1498]

Amstrad would have survived making PC clones if faulty hard drives hadn't sunk the PC2 range.

[@giovanniboni8711]

computer sfortunato, era ancora acerbo e pieno di bug (hardware e software sopratutto) quando presentato, d'altra parte in origine il superbasic ed il sistema operativo avrebbero dovuto essere caricati da microdrive permettendo un facile aggiornamento......poi, visti i tempi di caricamento del mdrive (!) si e' schiaffato tutto in rom pensando di fare come per lo zx80/81 che ebbero 2/3 revisioni differenti del s.o.......... Qule che mi ha colpito negativamente e' stato il fatto che avesse una grafica quasi inferiore a quella dello ZX !