Sinclair Research's growning glory was the ZX Spectrum in 1982, one of the systems which defined the early years of gaming in the UK. He started out selling radio kits, later getting into stylish pocket calculators, mini TVs, and wrist wratches with Sinclair Radionics before moving into computers. The BBC report that Clive Sinclair died on Thursday of cancer, aged 81. I'm too young to have seen its glory days but I think the first PC game I played was a Speccy shoot 'em up, a magical experience I didn't believe would actually work when I first saw my pal plug a tape deck into a keyboard. The first encounter with PC gaming for many of a certain age in the UK wasn't through any beige box MS-DOS or Windows, it was on that futuristic wee black keyboard with rubbery keys and a colourful stripe, which loaded software from cassette tapes. Clive Sinclair, the founder of the company which brought us the ZX Spectrum computer, has died.
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