sinclair in comment and analysis
Matthew Sinclair
CIO Profile Matthew Sinclair is European CIO for global insurance broker and risk advisor Marsh where he champions the automation and transformation of the insurance value chain through electronic trading and settlement. [11 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com... ZX Spectrum nostalgia, Mac attack, tag a bag…
Comment My first PC was a Sinclair ZX81, but my first 'main' PC was a VIC20, which took me through four years to my O'levels, before being replaced by a C64 and an AppleII+. Comments came flying in on this, some cheering for the winner, while some were a... [24 Apr 2008]
Analysis: Is now really the time to cast off the IT spending shackles?
Comment At UK telco BT, CIO Sinclair Stockman echoed those sentiments. The days of dot-com abandon and free spending are back with us - or so we could be forgiven for thinking after a glance at some of the latest research from the big analyst houses. [17 Mar 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 08.08.03
Round-Up However, what it has done is awoken Sir Clive Sinclair from his cyber slumber.and the man behind the legendary Sinclair C5 (and the eponymous home computers) is about to make a comeback in personal transport. [08 Aug 2003]
Will's Web Watch: 'Help me Babelfish - my wife's fallen in the apples'
Comment Surely it would be a right nightmare/ Lionel Blair/ Weston Super Mare/ Trevor Sinclair. Any holiday makers preparing for a trip overseas may well be brushing up on the 'lingo' - perhaps at the very least ensuring they've enough words to get them... [27 May 2003]
Technologies Time Forgot: The Dragon 32
Comment The company soon received a timely boost from its rivals: Acorn and even the mighty Sinclair were hit by supply problems, and, thanks to some heavy promotion by Boots the Chemist, Dragon 32s were flying off the shelves. [11 Feb 2002]
Technologies that Time Forgot: The BBC Micro
Comment Early discussions with Clive Sinclair were fruitless, when the machine he offered failed to match the rigorous specifications (Spectrum aficionados take note), and eventually only a last minute cobble offered by a small team from a small company... [28 Jan 2002]
Those were the days: The Acorn Electron
Comment The history books will show a production line problem in Malaysia meant a small fraction of orders could be fulfilled, consumers further embraced Sinclair and Commodore offerings that Christmas, and so crucially not enough software houses embraced... [25 Jan 2002]
Those were the days: Remembering the ZX Spectrum
Comment Ever since we decided to take a trip down memory lane and remember the Sinclair Spectrum - a machine that gave many of us our first taste of computing - we've been swamped by Reader Comments. He said: "The affection the Sinclair range engendered is... [17 Jan 2002]
Best of Reader Comments: ZX Spectrum users get dewy eyed
Comment but I also own a Sinclair C5! The Sinclair Legacy Shortly after Amstrad acquired the Sinclair brand in 1986 until 1990 I had the pleasure of being the customer support consultant for the range. I can only re-iterate the sentiments of the article... [14 Jan 2002]
Ginger nuts? Or is it just a vicious rumour?
Comment Sir Clive Sinclair will vouch for the fact that alternative modes of transport are far from being a licence to print money, and while Ginger comes with some pretty strong endorsements why should it be any different? [03 Dec 2001]
Ginger: Marketable myth or monster of misinformation?
Comment After all, whither the Sinclair C5? Within days the information had spread around the net and onto the pages of the UK weekend newspapers. As one of a number of industry heavyweights invited to a top secret demo of Ginger by inventor Dean Kamen... [16 Jan 2001]
Technologies Time Forgot: The Vic-20 and the Commodore 64
Comment A number of 'old skool' commentators in the UK have made that point that to own a Commodore was to support a US goliath against the plucky Brits beavering away at Sinclair Labs. I probably don't deserve to write silicon.com's eulogy to the... [24 Dec 1982]
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