Sinclair, Clive ==>
Clive Sinclair
<person> Sir Clive Sinclair (1939- ) The British inventor who pioneered
the home microcomputer market in the early 1980s, with the introduction of
low-cost, easy to use, 8-bit computers produced by his company, Sinclair
Research.
Sir Clive also invented and produced a variety of electronic devices from the
1960s to 1990s, including pocket calculators (he marketed the first pocket
calculator in the world), radios and televisions. Perhaps he is most famous (or
some might say notorious) for his range electric vehicles, especially the
Sinclair C5, introduced in 1985. He has been a member of MENSA, the high IQ
society, since 1962.
Planet Sinclair.
["The Sinclair Story", Rodney Dale, pub. Duckworth 1985]
(1998-11-09)
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