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COMpany> A British microelectronics developer and manufacturer. Evolving from Sinclair Radionics in 1979, Sinclair Research was owned by Sir
Clive Sinclair. Sinclair Radionics produced electronic
COMponents and devices (such as calculators and pocket radios and televisions), but Sinclair Research began by producing some of the first
8-bit home
microCOMputers. Sinclair produced five micro
COMputers from 1980 to 1987, all based on the
Zilog Z80 microprocessor (except for the
QL, which used the
Motorola 68008 - a variant on the
68000). The 1K kit-build
ZX80, introduced in 1980, was followed by the 1K
ZX81 (expandable to 16K) in 1981, the 16K (expandable to 48K)
ZX Spectrum in 1982 (then superseded by two distinct 48K models and a 128K model in 1986) and the
QL (Quantum Leap) in 1984. A portable
laptop COMputer, the
Z88, was released in 1987 under the
Cambridge COMputers banner. Of them all, the ZX Spectrum was the best known, and it went on to be
COMe the most popular micro
COMputer of its time in the United Kingdom and in many other territories. This was partly due to its ease of use, and also due to its enormous
software catalogue, covering games,
word processing, music,
programming and
graphics. Glorious "mine' s-better-than-yours" battles were fought (and still are today) between owners of Spectrums and
COMmodore 64s over who had the best machine. Sir Clive' s financial problems in the mid-80s led him to sell the rights to the Sinclair brand to
Amstrad in April 1986. This led to further models of the Spectrum being released from 1986 to 1988 and also an
IBM PC-
COMpatible based internally on Amstrad' s own PC range. Sir Clive was not involved with the production of these
COMputers, and no
COMputer with the Sinclair name has been produced since.
Start .
Planet Sinclair . {
COMp.sys.sinclair FAQ (http://www.kendalls.demon.co.uk/cssfaq/)}. (1998-12-09)
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