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Home computing pioneer ends era

Home computing pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair who created the ZX Spectrum and the less commercially successful C5 died after a long illness. He was 81.

Sir Clive was instrumental in bringing home computers to the masses, at least in the UK.

His daughter, Belinda, said he died at home in London on Thursday morning after a long illness. Sinclair invented the pocket calculator but was best known for popularising the home computer, bringing it to British high-street stores at affordable prices.

Many modern-day titans of the games industry got their start on one of his ZX models. For a certain generation of gamer, the computer of choice was either the ZX Spectrum 48K or its rival, the Commodore 64.

Belinda Sinclair, 57, told the Guardian: “He was a rather amazing person. Of course, he was so clever and he was always interested in everything. My daughter and her husband are engineers so he’d be chatting engineering with them.”

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