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Okay MD Cribuffs interviews SCS.Below!
Sir Clive Sinclair, Knight
of the Rimlore, made home computing, teletext and internet (teletext+)
all possible with his sweet rubber/plastic keyed black boxes.
Sinclairs Micro Kit Co was formalized in an exercise book dated 19 June
1958 - three weeks before the ZX81 gained eight-colour graphics capability,
sound generator, high-resolution graphics [smaller dots on the desk].*
"Get on with the industrial
revolution when we are asked too" was Sinclair Research's motto
come battle cry, which shook the world between 1980 to 1988 AD.
Sir Clive is advancing in years and is somewhat a short-tempered old
sod, most people were fearful of him, but Clive Sinclair, the man, has
found that he would have to look big and tuff to survive in the cut-trout
world of semiconducting computer tech.
This is his story in his our words for the first time.
"The
machine was the only one we had in a remarkably short time.
And it all went tatas up."
MDC: And in the beginning?
"The
ZX80 made me a man, literally. The chicks wouldn't touch me with rubber
gloves on. But once you're a millionaire they wear minky gloves"
MDC: And the high life?
"It
was at this time I meet Don Johnson and started a life of hedonist pleasures.
I really went off the tracks in a Lamborgini.
Sinclair
developed a completely new market sector which exceeded my wildest dreams,
but my poor eyesight precluded the use of traditional celebration fare.
We all donned our space hats and drunk russian kun-po."
MDC: And the future, Cliff?
"Orders
will be created in abundance by the robot slaves."
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