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Yep. RIP. Your devices gave me great joy and kickstarted a 30+ year career.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58587521

Great legacy.

RIP

Came here to post a fred but too late I see!

RIP Sir Clive, a life well lived!

Delphi wrote: Thu Sep 16, 2021 8:41 pm Yep. RIP. Your devices gave me great joy and kickstarted a 30+ year career.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58587521

Same. Well, 20 years, so far.

I had the rubber key 48k for a while before an upgrade to the +3. I also had a go in a pedal-powered C5 once, they were hiring them out at a campsite in Wales in the late 80s!

"a weird genius"

We need more of those.

R.i.p..

Sad...

We had a ZX80

We then upgraded that to ZX81 spec

Then got an actual ZX81 plus a Timex (I think?!) 16k RAM pack

Finally a Spectrum 48k

Very fond memories.

But he also had some stinkers that should have never seen the light of day. Did they not do user/market research then?

Or was he just a big ego who "knew best" (ignoring advice and being convinced of his own rightness)?

Our first computer was a ZX81 with the 16k expansion pack. I remember the expansion pack getting very hot and if you just touched it and wobbled it whilst the computer was on it would crash because the connection was so sketchy.

Happy days.