JET SET FUCKING WILLY!
It's still really funny to me that Clive thought his little toy computers could compete with the likes of IBM in the enterprise world.
>>12616634speccy was $100IBM PC was $3000they could both run spreadsheets. Clive won.
>>12616636Clive lost and is dead.
>>12616640Cdead
>>12616654kek
>>12616640name an American inventor who tried to bring cheap home computing to the public.I'll wait
>>12616634STOP ATTACKING THE MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR CORPORATION!
>>12616664Albert Charpentier, Robert Yannes, Robert Russel, Charles Winterble and Jack Tramiel.
>>12616636I've heard it said that the Americans like to give as much money to the corporations as possible because they're bootlickers. I don't know if personally can subscribe to that view myself, but it seems to be a pretty popular view
>>12616664
>>12616636>awful keyboard>rf output>no floppy drive>no hard drive>no 80-column text mode>no useful softwareIt was only useful for games and children's homework.
>>12616640Clive lived
>>12616771He died too. Along with his little toy computer and all of his other failed inventions that literally nobody adopted.
>>12616743Rodger Waters?
>>12616664Pic related.>>12616743Not this asshole.
>>12616664>name an American inventor who tried to bring cheap home computing to the public
>>12616990Steve Jobs actually wanted the Macintosh to be affordable. One of the reasons he got fired was he kept complaining that the price was way too high.
>>12617190Where did that sentiment go 20 years later?
>>12617212It was no longer needed because cheap PCs already flooded the market. Steve Jobs dream of every home having a personal computer had come true (but those computers weren't macs).
>>12617649Job's vision was lifted from this heeb, Jeff Raskin.The computer the Mac was supposed to be ended up becoming the Canon Cat.
>>12616743>cheap
>>12616974look outside, see all those faggots zipping around on electric bikes?Clive Sinclair, right there.
>>12616627>>12616636which RE thread died for this speccy autism now?
>>12616771the irony here is that the C5 looks far cooler than an electric scooter in 2026
>>12616974The sinclair spawned the British golden age of gaming, which saw the best games ever being developed. Rare games were on par with Nintendo games and GTA spawned one of the biggest franchises ever.Be thankful to Sir Clive
>Clive makes the speccy so kids can learn how to program>they all start making games>NOOOOOOOOO NO LIKE THAT!
>>12617983I would be horrified too if I saw my invention being used to create such horrible atrocities
>>12618005you wot m8?
https://youtu.be/IagZIM9MtLo
>>12616664jack tramiel you chinless tardoand he won
>>12616990>>12617148That's a Jew Idek Trzmiel
Would you suck on a Jet Set’s Willy?
>>12617664More like Steve Jobs was pushed out of the Lisa project, so he discovered the Macintosh project, pushed out Jef Raskin, and redefined the entire concept from being a fancy word processor (which is what the Canon Cat was) to a less expensive, general-purpose version of the Lisa. The only things that were carried over from the old concept were the Macintosh name and the desire to make an affordable mass-market computer.
>>12618949$600 = 350 GBPbruh... he had you six ways from Sunday
>>12619774The C64's priced dropped extremely quickly, so I wouldn't use the launch MSRP to compare prices
>>12620237And Spectrum stayed cheaper still.
>>12621175But it’s more expensive than the VIC-20.
>>12621271But only slightly, and its got almost 10x as much RAM. The only thing VIC20 is superior at is having a real sound chip, but that's because Clive refused to spend 5 quids on a sound chip.
>>12621640Cool! Didn't know about the VIC-20 PSG, it can make decent chiptunes.https://youtu.be/rgqkMOqiOD4
>>12621175I mean, the fact that this uses £ suggests this is a UK store. I’m sure that British computers are going to be sold for cheaper in British stores than they would be in American stores and vice versa. The source above says you could’ve bought a C64 in some parts of America for $199 at this time. In 1983, £129 would’ve been about the same as $199, if not more.
Whatchya lookin at faggit
>>12619774No one's life was changed by a spectrum. It was a vastly inferior model compared to all the machines it deigned to call its "peers".Meanwhile the ST, while less all-around capable than the Amiga, utterly dominated it for the most valuable part of the 16-bit lifecycle.
>>12622783>stick an electric motor on a tricycle>call it a car
>>12624248>call it a carClive himself said it’s not a car
>>12624416I'm amazed at how one nation can continuously make the ugliest machines the world has ever known.
>>12624431???
>>12623146>It was a vastly inferior model compared to all the machines it deigned to call its "peers".No, it stacked up pretty well comparatively, especially when considering what it sold for. It had more colors than contemporary European and even Japanese home computers, most of which were limited to 8 colors. It had more memory than the BBC Micro and a better CPU than the C64. Resolution was also great compared to most computers at the time with bitmapped displays. It didn’t have fancy hardware sprites and scrolling like the C64 and 800XL, but most computers at the time didn’t. The only significant weaknesses were the lack of a floppy drive and soundchip (I like the sound of the Spectrum’s beeper though).
>>12616627>THE SPECTRUM 128 launch was made memorable by a much reformed Sinclair Research, determined to impress sceptical journalists and not so sceptical members of the trade>The stage of the a Mayfair Hotel's Crystal Rooms was bedecked in the black and red livery Sinclair has adopted for the packaging of its new machine. Was Sinclair expecting blood to be spilled?>Sir Clive's opening speech, and the press information distributed to the audience, emphasized the change in direction taken by the company, which has finally accepted the importance of the games industry. "We have focused the 128 on the entertainment sector," chief executive Bill Jeffrey is quoted as saying. "Recent market research has shown us that entertainment is easily the most common use of computers in the home." Congratulations, lads, welcome to the real world.
