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Remembering the legacy of Sir Clive Sinclair
Inventor and pioneer was behind the iconic ZX81 home computer, plus the Sinclair QL – which Linus Torvalds learned to program on.
S ir Clive Sinclair has died at the age of 81. After leaving school at 17, Sinclair worked for a while as a technical journalist before creating Sinclair Radionics in 1961. Its first product was the Sinclair Microamplifier, released in 1962. After almost a decade of creating audio equipment, the company began creating popular pocket calculators that were considerably smaller than the competition.