Sinclair QL relaunch 1985 - Clive Sinclair interviewed

Interview with Sir Clive Sinclair. He talks on the QL, the Portable (Pandora) and the Wafer-scale integration (WSI for short).

Before the interviewer inroduces Sir Clive she presents a 9 ct. Gold Sinclair QL that was made by London Jewellers Aspreys in 1985. It cost £3,500.

The Pandora project eventually became the Cambridge Z88 launched on Feb 17th 1987.

The Wafer-Scale Add-On for the QL only existed as a prototype. Later Sinclair founded a new company called Anamartic to produce Wafer-Scale products.

He also praises the Motorola 68K microprocessor which was used in the Sinclair QL and Apple Macintosh personal computers both launched in January 1984.

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[DeLorean4]

Whatever happened to the golden QL?!!

[QLvsJaguar]

@DeLorean4 I don't know.

[mgsamps]

Brilliant man, unfortunately the world just wasn't ready for his incredible forsight in design, look at the world now, small electric cars and tiny computers (apple iPhones, netbooks etc) are now very desirable and common place. In about 10 to 15 years we will probably all be using something like the C5 that everyone laughed at 20 years ago.

[WOODSON777]

Clive was way ahead of his time. He is describing laptops in this video!

[68HC060]

@Max404s Yes. Searching for "Wafer drive" on Google, reveals that there's an USB-stick called "WaferDrive"

[bazfanv2]

With the popularity of the internet and sites like youtube. Who the fuck needs to go to school.

[SNK038]

@Max404s no it's completely not that at all. SSDs are more like the ROMs of old computers that held all the operating system and programs that did not have to be loaded from tape into RAM. The difference is that SSDs are writable. Wafer scale integration is just a manufacturing method that has never successfully been proven to be economically viable. Sinclair's wafers could not compete because soon after this video was filmed, memory prices dropped worldwide.

[Max404s]

He was way ahead of his time. This wafer drive he was describing sounds like it was basically an SSD.

[capricious71]

Used to like the computer TV programmes of the 80s. This (Database) used to have a "data burst" at the end. You put a tape recorder up to the tv and record a program that you'd play into your computer.

[smayds]

I was waiting for him to throw a phone through the window at Bilbo Baggins.

[loganduke]

@WOODSON777 Just wot I was thinking, such a shame the Sinclair era ended prematurely. What a guy! I woke up into the 80's and was privileged to experience the ZX revolution.......Sighhh.

[gazbert88]

Genius, years ahead of his time.

[EnglishWhitePride]

@alifia23 It's a study of how humans think about risk. If you own shares in a safe, solid company which is paying out a dividend of 2%, would you sell those shares to buy shares in a risky company which is paying out a div of 8% ? That's risk versus reward. Or would you take a shortcut from the supermarket to your home if that means walking through an unlit alley at night, or would you take a longer but safer route? That's risk psychology.