Clive Sinclair, who invented the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, an early personal computer, died of cancer Thursday at age 81, his family confirmed. Sinclair was an inventor with an impressive list of ...
Richard Trenholm was CNET's film and TV editor, covering the big screen, small screen and streaming. A member of the Film Critic's Circle, he's covered technology and culture from London's tech scene ...
Looking back from a world of smartphones and Xboxes, it’s astonishing that such a commercially successful product could have happened with this unglamorous and flawed piece of equipment. Yes, I’m a ...
A former Sinclair employee explains why the company behind the iconic ZX Spectrum refused to understand its importance to a generation of gamers. Luke Westaway is a senior editor at CNET and writer/ ...
First published in the Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper. Pride of place in my technology archive is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, one of the earliest and most impactful computers. It was created by that ...
Sir Clive Sinclair, the namesake of a British electronics manufacturer who helped pioneer Europe’s microcomputing boom, is dead at the age of 81. His company, Sinclair Radionics, is arguably best ...
Rick Dickinson, the designer of several iconic Sinclair home computers, died earlier this week. Mr Dickinson, thought to be in his 60s, had recovered after a cancer diagnosis in 2015, only for it to ...
The awesome Sinclair ZX Spectrum was my second computer and followed on from the 1K ZX81, providing the first taste of colour and a larger memory capable of playing games such as JetPac, Manic Miner ...
The Joy of Specs - in memory of our long lost rubber-keyed friend... This article was first published in January 2002 as part of our 'Technologies That Time Forgot' series of articles. We are running ...