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Welcome back. It's part two of the journey of Sir Clive Sinclair and his beloved C-5.

Coming up in this episode, Clive launches the revolutionary Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer and he takes the world by storm.

Before breakfast every day, Sinclair runs six miles from his home in Cambridge, showing the kind of single-mindedness and stamina, which has also allowed him to keep ahead in the consumer electronics field.

His list of firsts is staggering, beginning with the first pocket calculator. He followed this with a breakthrough in cheap digital watches.

Then he brought out his revolutionary 2-inch TV, the microvision.

And most recently, he's been marketing the first personal computer, the ZDX80.

So last time we left Sir Clive Sinclair, he was kind of smarting from the BBC launching their own computer.

Yeah.

But he lost to Christopher Curry in that.

This was the time of the kind of guy who just makes a load of money from computers in

Britain from the explosion yes can you think of the ultimate example of that because I think it'd

be nice to start with a story of someone who didn't come up from an eventing inventing well

Alan sugar yeah yeah Lord Alan sugar absolutely so he's a bit bullied Alan to me because I wrote for him for a bit oh yeah he. Absolutely. So he's a bit...

He's Alan to me

because I wrote for him

for a bit.

Oh yeah, he did of course.

So he's the anti-Ster Clive in a way in the sense of he's coming out of it from a much more of a interest in the deal side of it. Yeah. So he was born in Hackney, East London. the youngest of four children brought up on a council estate, his dad was a tailor,

his mom worked at a local clothing factory.

This is a... East London, the youngest of four children, bought up on a councillor state, his dad was a tailor,

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