My uncle had a C5 which i used to ride as a child, what a piece of shit it was! Hopefully it won't overshadow the pocket calculator which was life altering and the Spectrum which was a game changer.
Thanks sir Clive, His sad demise has made me marvel at how times had changed and are still changing, at school I had log tables and a slide rule. Calculators only came about when I been working for around 5 to 10 years, first one I saw was hand built from a kit, and my brain could calculate quicker than that calculator. It the ongoing progress that staggers me, as an example my nan when born, no one undertaken powered flight, when she died men had walked on the moon. When I was born the only phone was at the end of the road and if your luck was in you pressed button B and some money came out. Now we walk around with them and the computer inside are millions times more powerful than that went on that first flight to the moon. It’s absolutely staggering, and you got to wonder we’re it will all end.
Got me into computing and a reasonable career…couldn’t get on with the ZX81 keyboard so switched to Commodore VIC20…but Sinclair changed the face of computing. RIP.
RIP, a massive innovator in the late 70s and early 80s, who introduced a whole generation of children to home computing, and programming. And wobbly 16k Ram packs...
Proper visionary, and what I grew up expecting a tech genius to look like, instead of those who (seemingly rather sinister) dominate the economy today.
Nothing beat your mate discovering a cracking game you tape to taping it for yourself. Waiting to see if your bootleg copy would load up - especially if machine code rather than basic. Failing then adjusting the volume on your tape recorder then going again.
Mine blew up after many years use by plugging in my Kenpston Joystick into the port whilst the computer was turned on.
I used to write programmes that looped with minor changes projecting patterns onto an old colour TV. The processor was so small when I combined it with a tone generating line it could only do one at a time...
I used to type in listings from mags like Computer and Video games. Most of the games were crap but there were a few great ones like a caterpillar one similar to the Nokia Phone game. I enjoyed changing the graphics to personalise them a bit.
Manic Miner and Daley Thompson's Decathlon were games I spent a lot of time playing and Knightlore was fantastic technically. The latter was a real joystick killer. It was a great little thing the 48k Speccy.
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RIP Sir Clive
Me and my brother had the 48k with rubber keys. We had a book and you inputted the codes, it loaded up and you could play the game.
RIP
RIP Sir Clive.
RIP.
RIP
Bloke was a genius. RIP
Fond memories of playing Jetpac on my mates Sinclair
RIP we have lost a genius of our time
Manic Miner and Daley Thompson's Decathlon were games I spent a lot of time playing and Knightlore was fantastic technically. The latter was a real joystick killer. It was a great little thing the 48k Speccy.