Sinclair QL relaunch 1985 - Sir Clive Sinclair interviewed

Interview with Sir Clive Sinclair. He talks on the QL, the Portable (starting at 2:47) and the Wafer-Scale integration (starting at 4:36). He also praises the Motorola 68K microprocessor which is used in the Sinclair QL and Apple Macintosh personal computers both launched in January 1984 and challanged software houses.

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 portable project (codename Pandora) eventually became the Cambridge Z88 launched on Feb 17th 1987 by Sir Clive's new company Cambridge Computers.

The Wafer-Scale integration (WSI for short) Add-On for the QL only exists as a prototype. Later Sinclair founded a new company called Anamartic to produce Wafer-Scale products.

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