Before computers were a staple of workplaces, schools, libraries and many homes, they were bulky, expensive and a luxury many couldn’t afford. Enter Clive Sinclair. The British inventor’s first ...

Clive Sinclair, the English inventor best known for helping to popularize home computing systems, died on September 16 after battling a cancer-related illness for more than a decade. Sinclair created ...

His inexpensive Sinclair personal computer, one of many inventions, was an introduction to computing for young people in Britain and beyond. By Steve Lohr Sinclair computers are now distant artifacts ...

The iconoclastic inventor father of the home micro has died aged 81. I was probably the ideal customer for Clive Sinclair when he got started in the electronics business. He was keen to build a ...

Clive Sinclair, one of the driving forces behind Britain's computer industry and a major player in making computers cheap and available to everyone, died today, at the age of 81. Sinclair was best ...

Sir Clive Sinclair, the famous inventor and home computing pioneer, has died aged 81. The BBC reveals that Sir Clive passed away on Thursday morning, while at his London home, and that he had been ...

Looking back from a world of smartphones and Xboxes, it’s astonishing that such a commercially successful product could have happened with this unglamorous and flawed piece of equipment. Yes, I’m a ...

On March 5, 1981, Sinclair Research launched the ZX81 home computer in the U.K. (It was also known as the Timex-Sinclair TS1000 in the U.S.) It came with just one kilobyte of memory, and was a ...

Thirty years ago this month, Clive Sinclair launched a computer that he hoped would change the world. In the majority of cases it only changed the way people played primitive computer games, but it ...