Although this video involves many companies such as Sinclair Radionics, Sinclair Instrument Ltd, Thandar Ltd and Cambridge Processor Unit, it boils down to the trading names of Acorn Computers and Sinclair Research and the rivalry between them during the early 1980s era of home computers. It’s a very British story of the early micro computer industry, with each company respectively owned by Chris Curry (and Herman Hauser) and Clive Sinclair. This video charts the whole story from the inception of Clive Sinclair’s first company, Sinclair Radionics, to when Chris Curry started working for him, to when he left and formed Acorn and when the rivalry of early ’80s micros set in with each company trying to compete against other in gaming, educational and professional markets. Join me starting some time in the early ’60s for a journey that doesn’t really finish until this very day, as we visit Sinclair’s Black Watch, the Newbury Newbrain (later it would become the Grundy Newbrain), the Sinclair ZX80, the ZX81, the Spectrum, Sinclair QL and the Spectrum 128k+…. and on Acorn’s side, the Acorn System 1, System 2, System 3, Acorn Atom, Acorn Proton, BBC Micro, BBC Micro B, Acorn Electron, BBC Master, Acorn Archimedes and finishing up with the RISC ARM processors developed by the Acorn team in the mid-late 1980s.

Maggie Philbin talks about Clive Sinclair and some of his inventions, including his pocket calculator, the Spectrum, and the C5. Features Andy Kavanagh of comp.sys.sinclair “fame”.

Sir Clive should be remembered more for the ZX81 and ZX Spectrum and not the C5!

Maggie Philbin talks about Clive Sinclair and some of his inventions, including his pocket calculator, the Spectrum, and the C5. Features Andy Kavanagh of comp.sys.sinclair “fame”.

Jason drives the Tesla of the 1980s, if a Tesla was a nearly useless, slow, open electric three- wheeled plastic lump, made by the Steve Jobs of Britain.

Viewer comments:

The reason for YouTube. Right here.

This has literally less power than my electric longboard

You could probably vastly improve the power and range of a C5 today by substituting a modern motor and battery

I own two of them, and they are only 250 watts of power to have them street legal without insurance. They are really fun, I converted lights to Led, made a more advanced dash, and it just keeps working.

lotus engineers definitely bashed out that chassis design

Jason Fitzpatrick talks to Chris Curry about his early days at Sinclair Radionics, working with Clive Sinclair, Acorn Computers and the development of the BBC Micro. Filmed in 2015.

The Sinclair C5 was a battery electric vehicle invented by Sir Clive Sinclair and launched in the United Kingdom on 10 January 1985. It was a battery-assisted tricycle steered by handles on each side of the driver’s seat. Powered operation was possible making it unnecessary for the driver to pedal. Its top speed of 15 miles per hour (24 km/h), was the fastest allowed in the UK without a driving licence. It sold for £399 plus £29 for delivery. It became an object of media and popular ridicule and was a commercial disaster, selling only around 12,000 units.

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EEVblog 1419 – Sinclair C5 Restoration – Part 2
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