'' My name is Corporal Marsh .. spelt B a s t a r d ! '' Every time I learn something new,something old gets pushed out of my brain?

Michael K Williams, star of The Wire and Boardwalk Empire Steve

2008 TD4 HSE Auto, Zermatt Silver

Sir Clive Sinclair has died.

As reported on the BBC site;

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still got my ZX80 somewhere in the loft

 Jules

Sir Clive Sinclair

Surely a hero to all engineers.

I still have a small box of 'Microdrives' (small magnetic, contiuous loop, data tapes) that I was issued with by my firm. I'm no longer sure of what is on them, but I guess that one has a list of expenses claimed by me in the 1980s

They were used on this ICL 'One Per Desk', which was based on the ZX80 archetecture.

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Metro in its 11th Year of (Extended) LR Warranty / Full LR Service History
(Expensive, but Trouble/Worry free - hopefully?)

Back in the 60's I was into electronics and bought some of Sinclair's books of circuits using "micro alloy transistors" or MATs that he sold. I had great difficulty in getting his stuff to work. A friend then bought some of his Project 60 hifi modules and most of that didn't work either and had to be sent back for replacement. My first job was in the Plessey research labs and someone told me that Sinclair bought a load of reject semiconductors including IC amplifiers cheap as they were out of spec and was trying to find ones that worked and selling them on. It was all done on his kitchen table. He was certainly a character and a friend bought a Sinclair Scientific calculator for about £70 in the mid 70's (serious money) and the Black Watch. I eventually worked for ICL and had an OPD one per desk based on the ZX (which BT also tried to sell as the Tonto) but the microdrives were absolute rubbish and few customers actually bought one. What with the C5 I always wondered how he actually made any money. 3 x FL1 2 manual + 1 auto
5 x FL2 4 manual + 1 auto
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Jimmy Greaves has passed;

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Boycie has gone……  Regards

David

Lovely i6 has now gone, but not me......

Please let me know if anything in my post offends you, as I may wish to offend you again......

Yes so sad that is I love his donation idea what a guy.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz/breaki...y-25020576

CJOver wrote:

Jimmy Greaves has passed;

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58613988

Robert Fyfe has died aged 90
Howard from Last of the Summer Wine. Common sense isn't very common.
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Status Quo bassist Alan Lancaster.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58698864

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Roger Hunt: Former Liverpool and England striker dies aged 83

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58717157

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Fair play on goal again Roger 83 spot on the life expectancy in the UK, typical of a former Liverpool player 👍👍👍 RIP legend.