Clive Sinclair
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Oct 27, 2026
Dave MoorHOST
Let's do it.
Dave MoorHOST
So, on the 10th of January, Clive Sinclair, he did the...
Dave MoorHOST
The Spectrum ZX.
Dave MoorHOST
Yes.
Lee ArnottHOST
So, but in January...
Lee ArnottHOST
What's he introducing here? Yeah.
Dave MoorHOST
But in January 1977, Clive Sinclair introduces his new two-inch screen television set, which retails at £175, about £1,000 in today's money.
Dave MoorHOST
This was very exciting.
Toby HadokeHOST
That's a story for another day.
Toby HadokeHOST
But those that know what I'm talking about will remember the attempt from inventing genius Clive Sinclair to launch a car called the Sinclair C5 that wasn't really a car.
Toby HadokeHOST
It was a glorified go-kart that he thought people would go on the road in, and nobody did.
Toby HadokeHOST
Anyway, that is not a C5 Galaxy.
Anne AlliboneGUEST
So he wrote the Sinclair BASIC, which was basically all of the software that basically made the ZX80 spectrum work.
Anne AlliboneGUEST
So the ZX80 and the ZX81 for Clive Sinclair.
Anne AlliboneGUEST
So he worked for him and he was the one that invented that code, eventually.
Anne AlliboneGUEST
Yeah.
ReesHOST
I'm also gonna make this one of my videos of the week, if not my video of the week.
ReesHOST
"45 years later," writes Jenny List on Hackaday, "The Sinclair ULA design documents surface.
ReesHOST
In the 8-bit home computer boom of the early 1980s, Sir Clive Sinclair's machines were always among the cheapest on the market, often packing a surprising level of sophistication in their limited hardware.
ReesHOST
If there was one component that was key to their success, it was the Ferranti ULA, or uncommitted logic array, a clever way to make an ASIC from a chip containing a library of logic parts ready-made.
ReesHOST
The Sinclair ULAs have been reverse engineered, but their full details have remained a mystery, until now, it seems, because here's Happy Little Diodes with a treasure trove of original Ferranti design documents covering all the Sinclair parts.
ReesHOST
The documents were picked up on eBay and contain folders with printouts, engineering drawings, and handwritten design notes.
ReesHOST
They cover the full range of Sinclair products of the era, including the ZX81 and Spectrum, the ZX Printer, the Microdrive, the Spectrum Interface 1, and even the curious little flat-screen TV.
Aaron DoughtyHOST
...
Aaron DoughtyHOST
it sounds like Clive Sinclair, which is b- eerily similar.
BrentHOST
So what was the absolute worst thing to finish up on? Jack Tramiel loved the courtroom.
BrentHOST
He would sue you in a heartbeat.
Justin Robert YoungHOST
I named mine...
Justin Robert YoungHOST
I'm a fan of Clive Sinclair, the eccentric British inventor.
Justin Robert YoungHOST
There's only one kind.
Justin Robert YoungHOST
Britain gets like once every 40 years, they get a Sinclair or a Dyson, and that's kind of it.
Justin Robert YoungHOST
And Clive Sinclair was an eccentric British inventor.
Justin Robert YoungHOST
He loved trying to make...
Justin Robert YoungHOST
It was very much of a...
Justin Robert YoungHOST
Martin Friedman, yeah.
ChrisHOST
And when I say the Sinclair family, I literally mean it.
ChrisHOST
This comes from none other than Sir Clive's nephew, Grant Sinclair.
ChrisHOST
It's called the Gamer Card, and it's as thin as a deck of cards at 6.5 millimeters thick.
ChrisHOST
From the images, uh, on...
Kim JusticeGUEST
It's kind of a multi-part thing.
Kim JusticeGUEST
But yeah, like, kind of things like the company documentaries, stuff like that, and actually talking about people like Clive Sinclair.
Kim JusticeGUEST
Yeah, that was probably about 2015, 2016 that I kind of really started going full onto that, like, or when actually I probably, like, do a lot more research into these things-
Dean SwainHOST
Yeah
Jason BradburyHOST
Yeah.
Rick HendersonGUEST
However, the retro side of it, not only is the games that it com- that come on it and what you can play on it, is also the fact that it actually is designed and released by Grant Sinclair, the nephew of none other s- than Sir Clive Sinclair, the founder of Sinclair Computers, who made the ZX Spectrum.
Rick HendersonGUEST
And that in itself is a mark of respect in my eyes.
Rick HendersonGUEST
I was a...
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