Sir Clive Sinclair | 4 Computer Buffs | Retro Computers | 1985

[@rafaelromero6306]

One of the Great Ones passed today. I learned to code in a cheap Sinclair computer, my family could have never afforded anything else. Thank you, Sir Sinclair. May you rest in peace.

[@madyottoyotto3055]

He was a remarkable man but I'm not sure I can forgive him for giving the loading audio it still haunts me lol 🤣😂🤣 The aurguments over that game not loading after half the family had been typing it in for 3 days they where the days

[@Ahibasabala]

Sir Clive and his enthusiasm always reminded me of better days, RIP.

[@googleuser2571]

I know exactly what you mean.

[@hand587]

One of Britain's greatest inventors, a calm genius. Rest in peace, Sir Clive!

[@evo5dave]

Great man but certainly not calm!

[@mordavian]

RIP legend 😔

[@garyproffitt5941]

My brighter things in life are clear and controlled by microchips very intelligent Sir Clive Sinclair.

[@1697djh]

Sir Clive nailed the concept of the iPad years before Steve Job’s Apple did, and Memory cards 20 years before they happened, a true visionary? The ‘ultimate microcomputer’ hasn’t happened yet?

[@FindecanorNotGmail]

I'd say that both the Cambridge Z88 and the iPad had been inspired by Alan Kay's Dynabook concept (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook). Alan Kay even got invited to the launch of the iPad because Jobs wanted his opinion on it, to see if it held up enough.

[@Runescape.]

he also predicted the alexa and google home smart devices which you can talk to

[@BoomerNewman]

How ahead of his time Sir Clive was. From his miniature radios to his pocket calculators, from his MK14 to his Sinclair QL. There are those that scorn at his C5 but he had the ideas years before anyone else. Now there are fully electric cars on the road, AI in the home just like Sir Clive had foreseen. The ZX Spectrum must be the most influential micro ever built and as a childhood Spectrum owner it paved the way for my career in IT. The world is a much better place for Sir Clive, the man who had to wait for technology to catch up with him.

[@RW-nr6bh]

There just might be one computer that could compete with the ZX Spectrum in terms of being influential, but that's the ZX81, so I think Sir Clive's place in computing is rock solid.

[@MansteinPlan1940]

Thank you for everything Sir Clive, may you rest in peace

[@shaunh5316]

I’m a former ZX Spectrum user. Thanks for the childhood memories in the 1980s, Sir Clive.

[@realgroovy24]

R.I.P Sir Clive.

[@gigteevee6118]

This is an amazing 15min window into the spirit of 80s computing, Sir Clive was a visionary legend, but having such a diverse collection of kids by the end was even more ahead of its time.

[@marksims3904]

our legend is gone, the man who taught a million children to code, to play games and become something. RIP Sir Clive, LOAD "" will live forever. I'm off to play Manic Miner with tears in my eyes.

[@ab8jeh]

Love the presenter's direct style at 3:00. Not letting Sinclair off the hook.

[@mordavian]

What is he saying? I couldn't understand clearly.

[@letsdiscussitoversometea8479]

​​@@mordavianto paraphrase: "It is a standard in its own right, and the QL will be the same".

[@maxheadrom3088]

Wonderful! Sir Clive is a mix of Steve Jobs and Elon Musk but way ahead of his time in the technology he wanted to develop - and that, imho, accounts for a lot of his failures. A true genius!

[@casualretrocollector]

Yes indeed! He predicted the future of technology spot on!

[@ghenghiskhan9473]

the one thing in common with all of them is that they are arseholes! Jobs stole tech and repackaged it..and another offender is Bill Gates. Granted Sinclair was a visionary but also inflexible. The QL with wafer drive crap was the downfall of a potential winner. Musk and even Sinclair think they are above the people and have used government money to push forward their whims and fetishes. Musk is a charlatan. Sinclair was a jerk and an egotistical little toad with God complex.

[@DukeOfKidderminster]

Unfortunately he was a terrible businessman.

[@wetleyrocks3092]

Nah, Sir Clive is the UK version of Wozniak, the brains AND passion behind computing. Jobs/Musk (and Sugar) are business savvy folk (Gordon Gheko's) who don't care about anything but greed...

[@RW-nr6bh]

​@@DukeOfKidderminster The fact he was a terrible businessman was actually a good thing. He focused purely on invention and innovation. If he'd been thinking of business and market research, and worried about failure, he never would have made the impact he did from his successes.

[@DAIadvisor]

So good to see two educated and cultured people having a discussion. You just don't see this anymore.. Unfortunately.

[@S7EVE_P]

The black dot software download is genius

[@mattx5499]

One of the biggest minds of 20th century.

[@WilliamMorris]

Very smart man Sir Clive. I don't think the portable Spectrum came out. His comments on portable computers spot on!

[@richsmart321]

not the portable spectrum, but 35 years later, almost everyone has a portable computer in their pocket - most being built using the ARM chip! Another great British invention from the early 80s!

[@WilliamMorris]

@@richsmart321 very good point!

[@algiles881]

In 1987 Sir Clive bought out the Z88, under a new company he owned, Cambridge Computers - not long afterwards Alan Sugar bought out his NC 100.

[@PauloConstantino167]

1985. One year before I was born :)

[@t3chnod3lic]

Same year Commodore released the Amiga.

[@Odessia-ij5ys]

Clive Sinclair made computers more common reducing costs of production

[@AcornElectron]

8:19 nailed it

[@jotttn]

Manic Miner was the best - RIP

[@MannyAntipov]

RIP Sinclair

[@DavidRibera]

RIP Sir Clive. Many Spaniards are sad today knowing about your death

[@shaungreer3350]

RIP CLIVE

[@AcornElectron]

It’s like they say, a fine line between genius and madness Also, a fine line line between a great man and an absolute tosser.

[@wetleyrocks3092]

Do you think the female presenter was hoping to make the album cover of Kraftwerk's 'Man Machine'?

[@icantfindausernamehe]

Been reading the Sinclair manual recently. Functions are like "sausages".

[@wetleyrocks3092]

11:47 did anybody else think about the ending in the Predator movie?

[@ab8jeh]

8:40 Sinclair would never drive a Porsche!

[@MalcolmCrabbe]

LOL - sharp knives, saw's, hot soldering irons.... Kids aren't allowed to get within five miles of those things at junior school today !

[@Odessia-ij5ys]

BBC model b computer at school great machine for it's time but the zx spectrum computer was more in homes during the 1980's

[@Synthematix]

This egg boiler is an eggcellent experiment

[@JesterEric]

Sir Clive predicted Alexa

[@simonnomis5302]

hello there...:)

[@gemspotting6252]

As an innovator sir Clive Sinclair was second to none - his ability to predict the way things were going to go was uncanny, his downfalls were his timing was always off, his understanding of consumers poor and his business acumen was mediocre at best

[@cyberneticinterfacemodular3996]

Should have been the Bill Gates of the united kingdom and should have been the richest man in the world.

[@spakkajack]

i see some children were just as stupid as some are now