Sir Clive Marles Sinclair was born on July 30, 1940. He was an English researcher and inventor.
He formed the company “Sinclair Radionics” in 1961. which produced the first thin electronic calculator in 1972. (The Sinclair Executive).
A little later Clive Sinclar went into all home computers and made the ZX80 which was the first home computer in England for under £ 100.
He then launched the ZX81 and ZX Spectrum computers under Sinclair Research, which were very influential in the early days of the English computer industry.
Under Sinclair Research, he also produced the TV80, a flat portable TV. It sold only 15,000 copies.
Clive Sinclair comes from a family of engineers. His father and grandfather were engineers.
During World War II when London was bombed, his father was killed while he and his mother had earlier left London for safety.
His brother was born in 1943. and his sister in 1947.
Clive Sinclair designed the submarine at the age of 14. He had no interest in sports, he hung out with the elderly, mostly from his family.
Clive Sinclair did not go to university after leaving school at the age of 18.
He was then making small electronic packages which he sold through the “Sinclair Micro Kit” post.
Clive Sinclair founded Science of Cambridge Ltd in July 1977. and that year the firm launched the microcomputer kit MK14, based on the National SC-MP chip. Around July 1978. a personal computer was on the way, but when he saw that it could not be sold for less than 100 pounds, he switched to a simpler computer in May 1979. Jim Westwood started the ZX80 project.
Jim Westwood was otherwise the chief engineer at Sinclair Research.
Clive Sinclair was a poker player by the way as well. He called himself an atheist. He is a member of the British “Mense”.
Mensa is the oldest and largest highly intelligent society in the world.
Clive Sinclair does not use the internet, saying that he does not want technical or mechanical things to be around him because it distracts him from the process of creating new inventions.
Clive Sinclair said that the artificial intelligence of one will lead to the extinction of humanity.
“Once you start making machines that are rivals and outperform people with intelligence, it will be very difficult for us to survive. It is inevitable.”
