Visions - Interview with Sir Clive Sinclair on hopes and fears for the future (1990)

[khisanth75]

A true genius and a person with a very unique view on the world. Would love to see him focusing on computers again.

[notanfningain]

i notice in interviews; not just this one that he mentions Scotland whenever he wants to use an example of failing industry

[thewabbiteer]

What about the hand held TV and new forms of digital watches? Do you have something against Clive? The world would be a LOT BETTER OFF if we had more Clives - he goes for things, somethings he wins somethings he loses - same for every business. Difference is, you are watching a video about HIM! He probably has not watched a video about YOU!

[edwardszzz]

I apologise to everyone for calling him a failure. The mac was launched the same day as the QL. The bloke who wrote LINUX had a Q.L. He said it was crap. No one in the U.S. has heard of the Q.L. ,but everyone remembers the MAC. Sinclair only sold one million computers. 17 million C64 and 7 million apple iie were produced. All his products apart from the speccy were crap and did not work properly. No mouse or floppy for the QL. The C5 was a brilliant invention? Sinclair research went bust.

[Brane214]

@edwardszzz

Yeah, everyone remembers Mac- as crappy HW that Atari could EMULATE FASTER than teh original ran and at the half of the price.

QL had admittedly _somewhat_ circumsised hardware, but VERY capable multitasking OS- QDOS that worked beautifully.

I

[Brane214]

@edwardszzz posesed at one time or another many Spectrum 48K, several QLs, many Atari STs, many Comodore and Amstrad models and more than a few Amigas.

From all these I decided to keep just Spectrums and last year I even bought few QL's over Ebay.

I have serviced many computers, constructed hard disk and memory expansion for ATARI ST.

For QL I did turbo ( speed up of the machine to 16 MHz ) connection to VGA monitor ( when speeded up, machine was VGA compatible)

[Brane214]

@edwardszzz

From all these machines, QL posessed magical combination of firmware intelligence and hardware capabilities.

Even with 8-bit bus it managed to pump enough data through to generate colour picture worth 32K of data.

[thewabbiteer]

@edwardzzz - so how the FUCK would we be watching him on Broadband if he did not bring home computing to the masses? The Sinclaair QL slaughtered the market but was not PC compatible it had 40% of the market!

'He was a failure?' Can you please tell me of your achievements? I mean to say that Sir Clive is a failure you MUST have first outperformed him. I think not!

[edwardszzz]

The man was a failure. He never predicted the internet, youtube and the iphone revolution.

[rhodesy71]

@edwardszzz how can u call im a failure for that can you forsee what the top gadget would be in 15 years

[rhodesy71]

Respond to this video... he invented the first pocket calculator and digital watch first small portable tv the zx 80 zx 81 spectrum and so on were all big hits

[capricious71]

@edwardszzz You should read his CV before calling him a failure.

[edwardszzz]

@capricious71 am stupid .Please explain the term TROLLING. I have never received so much hatred, in e-mails since I posted my "failure" comment.Sinclair did not invent the ZX81. Two geniuses who later designed the Jupiter Ace did all the hard work . He never invented the Spectrum either, the blokes who created the Atari Jaguar console engineered it. I was annoyed that Sinclair got all the glory. His boffins, who were the real creatives, hated him and all left to undertake more worthy projects.

[khisanth75]

@edwardszzz Nice trolling. He never predicted X-factor or Tomb Raider either.

[Borin81]

and England went with the latter option.

[madcapoperator]

@Borin81 Can you blame us? Spending the entire 80's in a state of Thatchers short, sharp shock. People just wanted FUN and thats what they got. Hey im not saying its the best solution but there was a reason we went down that route.