Sinclair QL TV advertisement 1984 - feat. Sir Clive Sinclair - The Original!

[dtfageet]

IT'S THAT GAY TUNE AGAIN!

[sequence130]

Ahhh the 80's when men could dream of transport solutions made from parts of a washing machine

[RetroSoftware]

Can anyone ID the background music?

[QLvsJaguar]

@RetroSoftware It's "Breath Machine" by Momentary Sound Action.

[gentil79]

thumbs up if you pressed "mute"

[theProgrammer7]

Just watched BBS4's "Micro Men". That was a brilliant film. Very interesting!

[ZXZeido]

Yes... watched MicroMen last night.... SUPER.

It's like a trip back in time, that fills in all the missing details that I just could not gather from multiple computer magazines I read back then :)

[jkfdkjjd]

If only the QL had of taken off, we would have had far more cyber punk esque apple equivalent.

[Kie77]

I just watched Micro Men too. What a fantastic bit of television

[longclawson]

I totally agree. I am now replicating Martin Freeman's face having watched this. The man has lost the plot.

Cheers, Mark (Nottingham, UK).

[JayArgonaut]

lol don't forget when he sees Clive in the C5... The QL and the C5 caused his downfall, he wouldn't listen to the people around him and ended up with Amstrad devouring his company for a pittance.

[IntellectualAmy]

It was, wasn't it? The madness and bloody-mindedness of Clive Sinclair was amazing.

[TheMCMXXL]

Micro Men is fantastic, a very realistic documentaion which completely dropped me back into the 80s. Our public Broadcasters here in Germany should see, what the BBC can do with their money they got from the People. At least BBC4 seems to make a program -with- the people and not only -for- the people.

[falkerhard]

@Kie77 nice pun.

[OllieMcClellan]

Watch "Micro Men". It's interesting.

[DaveRob67]

Just seen this as on BBC4's "The Micro Men"

[dummyspitter]

wot no sound ?

[DirkSchooner]

pardon?

[jupiter1716]

My granddad used to have one. He threw it away though--that sucks.

[London1245711]

Remember spook and BJ the return?

[Arzalu]

En realidad, Sir Clive se dio el trastazo de su vida con el QL ¿o fue con la C5?

[Xuratoth]

Nice bit of nostalgia. The QL was actually agreat machine, despite the quirky keyboard and rather horrid microdrives. The OS and native BASIC variant were excellent (multitasking, device independence etc).

[ludocrat]

sound?

[mikadganjad]

MY GOD!!!! Did I see correctly the price tag of £698. No wonder the QL died quickly.

[NotATube]

@mikadganjad This likely refers to a complete system with monitor (which back then would have added significantly to the base QL's price)

The same uploader has an uncut version of this ad with the original soundtrack which refers to the QL "system". On that one the price for the BBC micro system is "£1632", but the bare BBC B itself was "only" £400 or so back then.

We can assume they added optional (and expensive) disk drives to make the BBC "comparable" to the QL's integrated microdrives.