26 Sep
2021
26 Sep
'21
6:44 p.m.
My girlfriend commented to me that Americans don't understand London"s
Fleet Street scene of the 70's and early 80s and how Sinclair products were
represented there. In the US the "Timex Sinclair TS-1000" was a budget $99
computer for sale in Hallmark gift stores and its marketing represented
little of the fleet Street cache.
Bill
Bill
On Sun, Sep 26, 2021, 10:05 AM Liam Proven via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
I found this interesting for perspective. The British
media (and
AFAICS of Australia, New Zealand and several bits of Europe) have been
saturated with coverage of a much-loved, widely-celebrated and revered
hero of tech.
As FC points out, even the American _tech_ media barely noticed.
?
The prescient, quirky legacy of U.K. gadget inventor Clive Sinclair
Little known in the U.S., Sinclair democratized computing with his
dirt-cheap 1980s PCs. Even his many failures were decades ahead of
their time.
?
https://www.fastcompany.com/90680349/clive-sinclair-obituary
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