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	Clive Sinclair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Clive Sinclair meets young inventors in Bristol, England in 1992.
		Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (born July 30, 1940 near Richmond upon Thames), is a British entrepreneur and inventor of, among other things, the world's first small electronic pocket calculator (Sinclair Executive), in 1972 and the ZX Spectrum computer in 1982.
		Sinclair was fascinated from his teenage years by electronics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clive_Sinclair (212 words)

	Sinclair Research Ltd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sinclair Research Ltd is a consumer electronics company founded by Sir Clive Sinclair in Cambridge, England (originally as Sinclair Radionics in 1961) to sell hi-fi equipment, calculators, radios and other products.
		Sinclair attempted to capture the top-end calculator market with the Sinclair Sovereign, available in plated gold or silver, it was critically acclaimed for its excellent engineering and design and enjoyed short success.
		Sinclair C5 Sir Clive had long held an interest in electric vehicles and during the early 1980s worked on the design of a single-seater "personal vehicle".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sinclair_Research_Ltd (2824 words)

	CRASH 15 - Sinclair Story
		Sir Clive Sinclair is now almost a figure of popular myth and has been referred to as 'Uncle Clive' by the press for nearly a decade.
		Sinclair products are generally made using sub-contractors, freeing the core of talent behind the Sinclair organisation to dream up new products and designs, but it also means that quality control has taken a while to stabilise at the outset of each product.
		Sinclair was also active in the electronics instrument field, launching the DM2 multimeter in the early seventies and becoming the largest manufacturer of digital multimeters in Europe in little more than five years.
	www.crashonline.org.uk /15/sinclar1.htm (1889 words)

	Biography of Sir Clive Sinclair
		Sir Clive Marles Sinclair was born in 1940
		Sir Clive Sinclair was to be less succesful with his C5 three-wheel car.
		Sir Clive Sinclair was Chairman of British Mensa from 1980-1997.
	www.biogs.com /famous/sinclairclive.html (317 words)

	A-bike from Sinclair Research Limited
		Sir Clive Sinclair is an inventor who was born in London in 1940.
		In May 1999 Sir Clive added to his range of miniature radios with the Sinclair Z1 Micro AM Radio bringing listeners their favourite AM station - local, national or commercial - when and wherever they are.
		Sir Clive now lives in London and, apart from electronics, includes mathematics, poetry and music among his interests.
	www.sinclair-research.co.uk /about-srl.php (1766 words)

	Planet Sinclair: Sinclair: The future
		In fact, some time before the Amstrad deal, Sinclair had admitted the importance of games and had been working on a second new machine (the first which leaked to the press was the Loki) was codenamed the LC3, which stood for low cost colour computer.
		Sir Clive seems to choose his words with greater care.
		Although Sir Clive considers his answer carefully, the strongest impression is that whilst he may agree, he doesn't really mind.
	www.nvg.ntnu.no /sinclair/sinclair/clive_su0886.htm (2739 words)

	The Sinclair Lair
		The brilliant technical career of Sir Clive Sinclair started when he was still at school but Sinclair Research, the computer company - his third attempt at a high-tech firm - was not founded until July 1979.
		Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher saw in Sir Clive a technological innovator and almost overnight Sinclair Research became a flagship for British high-tech electronics and innovation.
		Robert Maxwell boldly announced a takeover of Sinclair Research during the summer - by the autumn, though, the Maxwell board had rejected the move and Sir Clive was once more on his own.
	www.waddington.fslife.co.uk /clive_bows_out.htm (994 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Magazine \| 'Move over Segway, I'm planning the C6'
		Sir Clive broke the news of his intriguing new invention while road testing the revolutionary new Segway scooter for BBC News Online.
		Sir Clive in 1985, on a C5 But since going on sale in March, it seems to have fared better than its groundbreaking British equivalent all those years ago.
		Sir Clive was also "disappointed" the Segway did not live up to the early hype, when pundits speculated the then "mystery invention" could be a jet-pack or hover skateboard.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/magazine/3125341.stm (877 words)

	Hi-Tech Homes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Clive Sinclair was a bit like a cross between Steve Wozniak of Apple Computer and Adolf Hitler of the Nazi Party, in that he was a technical boffin whose obsessions brought his company to swift fame and success, and equally-swift ruin.
		Furthermore, Sir Clive seemed to have a genuine interest in the technology, whereas the other famous computery businessmen - Jobs, Gates, Ellison, the lot of them - appear to be more interested in marketing, which is perhaps why Sir Clive is a nobody and the aforementioned are extremely rich.
		Sinclair poured lots of money into developing the television's clever cathode-ray display (the electron gun is at right angles to the screen, with the path of the electrons being bent by magnets).
	www.ashleypomeroy.com /hitech19.html (641 words)

	Sinclair User 36 - Sinclair C5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		THE SINCLAIR C5, a 99lb battery-powered, one-seater tricycle with a white plastic body, seems set to create more noise in the motoring world than John De Lorean and the BL Maestro rolled into one.
		Bill Nichols of Sinclair Research says it was never the intention to hide such costs to the user, and points out that "none of those items is legally required." However, the issue at stake is not the legality of the machine, or even its structural stability.
		Sir Clive may seem an unlikely candidate for the Henry Ford of the 80s but if nobody ever took those risks, we would still be riding horses.
	www.sincuser.co.uk /036/sincc5.htm (1406 words)

	Planet Sinclair: Sir Clive Sinclair
		Sir Clive Marles Sinclair has been an iconic and often controversial figure in British industry for more than quarter of a century.
		He was lauded (and awarded a knighthood) by Margaret Thatcher's government for leading what was seen as a renaissance of British industry, but was seen in other quarters as offering only skin-deep solutions to Britain's industrial malaise.
		Now in his sixties, Sir Clive still continues to produce a variety of innovative products from his London headquarters.
	www.nvg.ntnu.no /sinclair/sinclair/sinclair.htm (114 words)

	Sinclair User 35 - Sir Clive Sinclair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Sir Clive is in a position to shape that future and to be optimistic isn't enough, he must be confident that the consequences of his actions will be beneficial.
		In his speech, Sir Clive acknowledged many people would be 'unemployed and very miserable' as a result of increasing computerisation, but it would be only 'a temporary pattern'.
		Sir Clive dismisses fears of an Orwellian society, a tyranny of machine surveillance, yet the misuse of technology is rampant today.
	www.sincuser.f9.co.uk /035/sirclve.htm (2217 words)

	CHRISTOPHER A LONG - Sir Clive Sinclair
		Sir Clive would hate to be described as a toy manufacturer and he would be quite right.
		Sir Clive Sinclair at 44 is already a national 'guru' and the brains behind an ideas empire worth over £130 million.
		Sinclair believes in small creative groups (only about 50 directly employed at the Sinclair Research Laboratories in Cambridge and only about 25 at the Vehicles plant in Birmingham).
	www.christopherlong.co.uk /pri/sinclair.html (1779 words)

	Scotsman.com Living - Digital Culture - Back in the saddle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Sinclair, the man who pioneered the home-computer revolution with his sub-£100 ZX80 model, does not have a PC anywhere in his home.
		Since 1958, Sinclair has devoted himself to changing the way we live and learn, braved new worlds with his original concepts and, when he has got it wrong, has gone bravely back to the drawing board, undeterred.
		Sinclair is optimistic that he can sell 100,000 A-Bikes in the first year, before tackling the Far East and America.
	living.scotsman.com /digital.cfm?id=1013312006 (2110 words)

	Clive Sinclair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Clive was engaged at this time and six months after the company took off he married Ann.
		Clive famously became Chairman of British Mensa in 1980 and filled this role until 1997 when he thought it was time someone else had a go.
		Clive took his Mensa duties seriously, attending a wide variety of gatherings at local, regional and national level.
	www.mensa.org.uk /mensa/clivesinclair.html (2303 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Sir Clive Sinclair
		IT WAS dubbed a death trap and the washing machine motor, but, 20 years on, Sir Clive Sinclair believes his C5 was simply the right idea at the wrong moment.
		As Sir Clive Sinclair announces his intention to launch a successor to the C5, Stephen McGinty takes a look at the inventions of the 1980s that promised so much - but ended up on the scrap-heap.
		SIR Clive Sinclair, the man behind one of Britain's most infamous inventions, the Sinclair C5 electric car, is launching a follow-up to the vehicle.
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=963&id=848102003 (264 words)

	SIR CLIVE SINCLAIR AND THE SINCLAIR C5 - ELECTRIC URBAN RUNAROUND - BLUEBIRD ELECTRIC 3 LAND SPEED RECORD PROJECT
		Created by the innovator and inventor Sir Clive Sinclair, most famous for his ZX80 and ZX81 personal computers from 1980, the C5 was a revolutionary electric vehicle weighing in at just 99lbs.
		Sinclair's directors were critical of spending corporate money on this type of research, so Sir Clive sold a small fraction of his company shares which netted 12 million pounds for the cause.
		Sir Clive Sinclair would no doubt have known what that felt like in the wake of the C5's hostile reception.
	www.speedace.info /sinclair_c5.htm (1670 words)

	Sir Clive Sinclair (1940-) of the PC
		Sir Clive Sinclair (1940-) of the PC Sir Clive Marles Sinclair, born 30 July 1940 Knighted 1983, staunchly
		Largely self-taught, he formed the Sinclair Radionics company in 1972 and produced some of the first multifunction electronic calculators and digital watches.
		Sir Clive also invented the Zike an electric aided bicycle.
	sinclair.quarterman.org /who/clive_of_pc.html (162 words)

	Scotsman.com Living - Miles ahead of its time
		Yet the millions of sales envisaged by Sinclair proved way off the mark; only 5,000 were sold worldwide, including just a handful in the US and Europe.
		Sinclair is adamant it was: "Having the benefit of hindsight, I would do what Mercedes did with the A Class and show it a year before launching it so people could get used to the idea.
		Sinclair claimed this was the smallest in the world and one which was powerful enough to pick up signals from around Europe.
	living.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=26142005 (1595 words)

	OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum
		The Sinclair QL was the first attempt for Clive Sinclair to produce a computer for business.
		In January 1984, Clive Sinclair presents the QL to the press, unveiling a very promising and inventive machine, based on the 68008 processor from Motorola.
		It was important for Clive Sinclair to unveil the QL before the Macintosh, but that was also one of the main reasons for the QL's failure...
	www.old-computers.com /museum/computer.asp?c=199 (189 words)

	Making the Modern World - Sir Clive Sinclair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Sinclair has been an iconic and often controversial figure in British industry for over 25 years.
		Sinclair was forced to sell his microcomputer division and brand to Amstrad.
		Sinclair, who was Chairman of Mensa from 1980 until 1997, was awarded a knighthood in 1983.
	www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk /people/BG.0045 (251 words)

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		Sir Clive Marles Sinclair was born in 1940.He launched his own company, Sinclair Radionics Ltd in 1958 (although the Mensa website and others say 1961 - so there is some debate).
		An article in The Observer dated 19 October 1997 by John Arlidge reports on a schism and controversy within Mensa: "Delegates bitterly criticised the outgoing chairman, inventor Sir Clive Sinclair, who forced Mr Gale [former Mensa Chief Executive] to quit.
		"Members questioned why Sir Clive wanted a dawn raid on the organisation's offices in Wolverhampton and expelled Mr Gale over allegations that he had abused his position to run a private company..." The rest of the article deals with a fascinating power struggle in Mensa but does not really relate to Sir Clive.
	www.allcomprehensiverxfacts.com /index.html (964 words)

	Sir Clive Sinclair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Sir Clive was born in 1940, the son of a wealthy fruit and veg salesman and a French nurse.
		In 1989, Sir Clive was engaged to 'Curvy Bernadette Tynan' (22, pictured right).
		Sir Clive has since been spotted 'on the town' with a series of other stunners.
	homepages.enterprise.net /cavan/ysac/sirclive.shtml (193 words)

	Sinclair User 53 - Sir Clive : Life After Death? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Since the deal with Amstrad, Sir Clive's projects now revolve around a number of separate companies.
		Whilst Pandora will be a Sinclair Research product, the wafer project is being handled by a new company called Anamartic.
		Even so, Alan Sugar seemed to get the Sinclair products and rights very cheap £12m for a firm valued at over £100m a year before.
	www.sincuser.f9.co.uk /053/clive.htm (2748 words)

	Clive Sinclair from FOLDOC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Sir Clive Sinclair (1939-) The British inventor who pioneered the home microcomputer market in the early 1980s, with the introduction of low-cost, easy to use 8-bit computers produced by his company, Sinclair Research.
		Sir Clive also invented and produced a variety of electronic devices from the 1960s to 1990s, including pocket calculators (he marketed the first pocket calculator in the world), radios, and televisions.
		Perhaps he is most famous (or some might say notorious) for his range electric vehicles, especially the Sinclair C5, introduced in 1985.
	ftp.sunet.se /foldoc/foldoc.cgi?Clive+Sinclair (116 words)

	Sinclair, Clive Pioneers History Computers
		- Biography and chronology of Sir Clive's life (to 1986) plus various interviews.
		- Brief page on Sir Clive focusing on his calculators, though he also invented the digital watch, and was father of the British home computer revolution.
		- Biography of Sir Clive Sinclair from Mensa, the society for brainy people which he chaired from 1980-97.
	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Computers/History/Pioneers/Sinclair,_Clive (110 words)

	Opera Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Biography of Sir Clive Sinclair from Mensa, the society for brainy people which he chaired from 1980-97.
		Biography and chronology of Sir Clive's life (to 1986) plus various interviews.
		Brief page on Sir Clive focusing on his calculators, though he also invented the digital watch, and was father of the British home computer revolution.
	portal.opera.com /web?cat=531806 (195 words)

	A (not very) Interactive Interview with Sir Clive Sinclair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Back [What is Sir Clive up to now?]
		Clive, tell me, let's go back to the beginning.
		Erm, I read that quite obviously you were always intrigued as a child by how things worked.
	homepages.enterprise.net /cavan/ysac/interview.shtml (630 words)

	The Bubble Burst - Clive Sinclair - Where Is He Now?
		The Bubble Burst - Clive Sinclair - Where Is He Now?
		IN 1985, UNVEILED THE SINCLAIR C5, A THREE WHEELED VEHICLE FOR ONE PERSON WHICH USED A SMALL MOTOR POWERED BY RECHARGEABLE BATTERIES.
		RUMOURED TO BE IN TALKS ABOUT CROSSING THE SINCLAIR C5 WITH A FIBREGLASS RELIANT ROBIN.
	www.thebubbleburst.co.uk /clivesinclair (345 words)

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