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- For the Somerset Maugham Award-winning author, see Clive Sinclair (author).
Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (born July 30, 1940 near Richmond upon Thames), is a British entrepreneur and inventor of, among other things, the world's first small electronic pocket calculator (Sinclair Executive), in 1972 and the ZX Spectrum computer in 1982. Sinclair was fascinated from his teenage years by electronics. In 1961 he started his own company, Sinclair Radionics Ltd, after spending several years as assistant editor for Practical Wireless and Instrument Practice to raise funds for his company.
In recent years Sinclair has become a keen poker player and appeared in the first three seasons of the Late Night Poker TV series. He won the first season final of the Celebrity Poker Club spin-off, defeating Keith Allen.
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Wow! An Oyster card has the same amount of memory as one of Clive Sinclair's ZX81 computers from 1981 http://bit.ly/7aNfGj
DeepBlueDK (Deep Blue Danmark) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:41:51 -0000
Wow! An Oyster card has the same amount of memory as one of Clive Sinclair's ZX81 computers from 1981 http://bit.ly/7aNfGj
Me, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Emily Bronte, Henry Ford, Henry Ford & Sir Clive Sinclair all have the same birthday, July 30th ;)
misslaurapalmer (Laura Palmer) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:31:54 -0000
Me, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Emily Bronte, Henry Ford, Henry Ford & Sir Clive Sinclair all have the same birthday, July 30th ;)
@jaffathecake If only Sir Clive Sinclair had been a Bee
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Interview, Classic FM - Transcript and .AIFF recording of an interview with Sir Clive Sinclair on Classic FM's Celebrity Choice programme.
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Mensa - Sir Clive Sinclair - Biography of Sir Clive Sinclair from Mensa, the society for brainy people which he chaired from 1980-97.
Planet Sinclair - Sir Clive Sinclair - Biography and chronology of Sir Clive's life (to 1986) plus various interviews.
Sinclair in Cambridge - Very brief history of Sinclair in Cambridge, and of Cambridge University's Sinclair Building.
The Adventures of Sir Clive - Amusing fictional story featuring Sir Clive Sinclair.
Uncle Sinclair - Brief page on Sir Clive focusing on his calculators, though he also invented the digital watch, and was father of the British home computer revolution.
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YSAC: Sir Clive Sinclair - Your Sinclair: A Celebration presents links, information, trivia and pictures of Sir Clive.
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