Initially this included manual work, but as his self taught electronic knowledge grew, moved across to holiday jobs at electronic companies, one of which was called Solatron a company which persists to this day, but at the time developed a range of scientific devices including X-ray spectrometers and oscilloscopes.
This was without even realising that this was a system already widely used, particularly in the developing area of computing.Īs the 1950s pressed on Clive stumbled across the exciting world of electronics and began a hobby of building electronic circuits, whilst engaging in entrepreneurial endeavors on the side. The system he built worked around a binary system conjured for it’s simplicity. This drive led the young Clive into mathematics where at high school, he developed a calculating system driven by punched cards. The Sinclair’s were a frank speaking family and this open honesty led Clive to peruse topics he found interesting whilst negating anything he concluded was superfluous. Spending his younger years in the relative safety of Devon at the height of London’s bombing, Clive spent his younger years enjoying swimming and boating but also developed an unquenchable interest in learning.
It makes sense then, that Clive would follow suit in a similar field. Bill Sinclair was at the time a mechanical engineer who ran his own machine tool business in London assisting with the Ministry of Supply. Of course you can’t tell the ZX Spectrum story without Sir Clive Sinclair, so we begin near Richmond, Surrey on the 30th July 1940 as Clive was born to Thora Marles and George William Sinclair, known as Bill. So here we are, at the beginning of the ZX Spectrum Story.
So, although I’ve covered this glorious system in a previous triple part documentary, that was about 2 years ago, and frankly it deserves better. That’s only 15 years away from half a century. Sinclair ZX Spectrum is a whopping 35 years old on 23rd April 2017.
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