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#289619 17-Sep-2021 12:34
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Not a single article about Sir Clive's passing on Stuff or Herald or Newshub, it was Hack-A-Day where I learned this sad news...

 

https://hackaday.com/2021/09/16/farewell-sir-clive-sinclair-inspired-a-generation-of-engineers/

 

I mean, I know he's not related to NZ in any particular way, but he was a pretty important person in our collective technological history.  You'd think at least a paragraph.

 

 




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  #2779881 17-Sep-2021 12:43
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RIP, Sir Clive. It was the ZX81 that started it all for me. 




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  #2779893 17-Sep-2021 13:27
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Stu:

 

RIP, Sir Clive. It was the ZX81 that started it all for me. 

 

 

 

 

Ditto ZX81 was my first computer. I made a huge impact on my journey.




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  #2779895 17-Sep-2021 13:32
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Good write up on Aardvark http://aardvark.co.nz/daily/2021/0917.shtml



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  #2779930 17-Sep-2021 14:56
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ZX Spectrum Plus for me, way back in 1986 (I was 10!)

 

Saw Micro Men back in 2009, revealed a lot of the history around Sinclair I never knew beforehand.

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  #2779932 17-Sep-2021 14:58
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Yeah, Aardvark was where I read about his passing. It was also one of his better columns from recent memory.

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  #2779944 17-Sep-2021 15:35
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ZX81 as a present for Christmas 1982

 

ZX Spectrum 48K as an upgrade for Christmas 1983

 

Upgraded the Keyboard to a ZX Spectrum+ as a later date - you just moved the motherboard over.




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  #2779955 17-Sep-2021 15:59
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RIP

 

There are some good documentaries covering some of his work...




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  #2779960 17-Sep-2021 16:17
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RIP Clive - ZX81 was my first computer as well

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  #2779962 17-Sep-2021 16:23
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RIP Sir Clive. I am sure my ZX81 is stored somewhere in our garage.




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  #2779967 17-Sep-2021 16:38
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RIP :(

 

ZX Spectrum 16k was our first, around 1983, and later upgraded to 48k.




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  #2780011 17-Sep-2021 17:27
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Have a Cambridge in my Desk Drawer - nostalgia at it's finest.

 

Not the first kit I put together - that'd be a Heathkit shortwave...

 

My ZX81 (with printer !) is packed away.

 

Probably the peak of my electronic skill - reverse engineering that and doubling its memory.

 

Sinclair played some very cunning tricks addressing the RAM, if I recall.

 

He was a great mind.

 

 
 
 
 

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  #2780012 17-Sep-2021 17:36
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pdh: Sinclair played some very cunning tricks addressing the RAM, if I recall.

 

 

 

What happened is thay Sinclair got hold of a load of faulty ram chips cheap, of each chip half the bank was perfectly good, so for a 32k machine they put in 64k of ram and just arranged it so that only the good halves of each chip were used.

 

Sinclair was really the king of cost reduction.




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  #2780016 17-Sep-2021 17:51
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Did anyone ever own a Z88? Were they even available in New Zealand?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Z88

 

 

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  #2780017 17-Sep-2021 17:52
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Zeon:

 

There are some good documentaries covering some of his work...

 

 

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  #2780028 17-Sep-2021 19:02
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Ahh the ZX80 with the wobbly ram pack expansion

 

that brings back memories ( It used to wobble just as you finished getting

 

a program to run and loose everything before saving it to tape )

 

 

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