Sinclair QL failed in the market 1986 - Amstrad takes over

On April 2nd 1986 Sinclair Research Ltd. sold its computer business to Amstrad Plc. The press conference was held on April 7th. Amstrad axed the QL and only continued the ZX Spectrum line until 1991.

This video shows original footage of the press conference where Amstrads Alan Sugar talks about the deal in a nutshell plus an exclusive interview of Sir Clive Sinclair.

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[numberwang2020]

cheyou must see johnathon ross and clive sinclair on a c5 on you tube electric disorder

[QLvsJaguar]

@numberwang2020 Many thanks for passing this information to me! I like this music video of the pop song "Clive Sinclair" by Electric Disorder and added it to my favourites immediately.

[bedsitter1982]

Alan Sugar was just another manager.

Clive Sinclair has been a real inventor.

[madcapoperator]

Alan sugar=cunt

[Parknest]

@Steve10578 I had a Spectrum back in the day and I always defended it. The C64 & BBC had similar processors (6510/6502 against the Speccy's Z80A) but the sound and graphics were slightly better. The Spectrum had more RAM available to use then the C64 (which used bank switching because the CPU could only address 64K of memory at at time which included both ROM & RAM) and at 48K was more than the BBC. I've played games on a C64 emulator and the feel is similar to the Speccy.

[Steve10578]

@Parknest - I would not say the Spectrum was inferior to the BBC Model B. Also depending on software sometimes the Spectrum version looked and performed better then the C64 and the CPC versions of the same software. What the C64 versions always excelled at was in the sound department though.

[worldbeater1]

@supahdupahguy81 Mine Sincalir machine is still running.. despite the poor quality :P

[TheDreamClaw]

@MrDjc1970 LOL



[Parknest]

Sir Clive was a genius. Yes, the Spectrum was techically inferior to the competition (C64, Amstrad CPC464 and BBC Model B) but it was more popular despite a few faulty machines. Betamax videos were technically superior to VHS but VHS was more popular and endured for over 20 years.

[supahdupahguy81]

people overrate the Sinclair machines due to nostalgia...

they were technically unspectacular & the build quality was extremely poor.

[acquiesce100]

Commodore 64K was king

[MrJuide]

Do you thin Sugars balls has as much hair as his head?

[MrDjc1970]

they look like a couple of paedophiles from the 80's

[marcel911]

Sinclair stuff was crap. He made everything too cheap and flimsy.