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Computer classics, Vista uptake, iPhone price cuts and Heathrow T5...

News It was time for some tech nostalgia during April with the Sinclair ZX spectrum crowned the most popular first home computer by silicon.com readers. Check out where your favourite golden oldies came in the running.

Tags: jobs, vista, iphone, heathrow

[28 Apr 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...

Tags: mac, zx spectrum, rfid

[24 Apr 2008]

ZX Spectrum crowned king of computer classics

News The Sinclair ZX Spectrum has been crowned the most popular first home computer, beating off competition from other classics such as the Amiga and BBC Micro. Almost a third (31 per cent) of the more than 900 respondents in the silicon.com poll said...

Tags: commodore, spectrum, bbc, sinclair

[18 Apr 2008]

Engineering and Project Delivery Firm Delivers Global Capabilities With Microsoft Collaboration Tools

whitepaper Sinclair Knight Merz, a leading engineering and project delivery firm, was growing rapidly in revenues, staff numbers and locations around the world and sought to deliver outstanding client service. Over several years, the company implemented a...

Tags: application servers

[02 Apr 2008]

Computing museum at risk of being thing of the past

News But he added that to lose the collection, which attracts about 5,000 people annually and has Sir Clive Sinclair as a fan, would be unthinkable. The UK's first museum dedicated to the history of the computer is facing homelessness after receiving no...

Tags: history, museum, computer history

[01 Apr 2008]

Webcast: Ultimate Architecture Flexibility with HP BladeSystem and VMware Infrastructure

whitepaper Shultz, Systems Engineer, Strategic Alliances, along with Doug Hart, Systems/Software Engineer, and Barry Sinclair of HP BladeSystem Platform Marketing, who discuss best practices for architecting VI3 on HP ProLiant C-Class Blades.

Tags: infrastructure management, class, flexibility, proliant

[12 Dec 2007]

Ultimate Architecture Flexibility with HP BladeSystem and VMware Infrastructure

whitepaper Shultz, Systems Engineer, Strategic Alliances, along with Doug Hart, Systems/Software Engineer, and Barry Sinclair of HP BladeSystem Platform Marketing, who discuss best practices for architecting VI3 on HP ProLiant C-Class Blades.

Tags: class, flexibility, proliant, vmware

[12 Dec 2007]

Challenge: Design a computer lab for developing world

News Architecture for Humanity is the brainchild of architect Cameron Sinclair, who won a $100,000 grant from the TED Prize in 2006 so he could do something to change the world. Sinclair said in a statement: "For far too long many great award-winning...

Tags: developing world, digital divide, amd

[12 Mar 2007]

Cheat Sheet: FMC

Cheat Sheet Is this a bit of a Sinclair C5 of a technology then? What is FMC then? Fixed-mobile convergence. Er, great. What's that when it's at home? Fixed-mobile convergence, or FMC, is all about making calls over both your landline and your mobile network...

Tags: voip, cheat sheet, fmc, fixed mobile convergence

[23 Jun 2006]

Public ready to shun TV over mobile

News Analysts have been slugging it out as to the future of TV on mobiles which, depending on who you listen to, is either the great white hope or the Sinclair C5 of multimedia mobile services. A report from Entertainment Media Research (EMR...

Tags: mobile tv

[08 Nov 2005]

CIOs still excluded from the boardroom

News Heidi Sinclair, European CEO at Burson-Marsteller, told silicon.com that businesses still don't 'get' the value of IT and view it purely as an additional expense. But Sinclair added the current wave of compliance and corporate governance work is an...

Tags: boardroom, cio

[19 Oct 2005]

AA rejects plan to move call centres to India

News Kevin Sinclair, managing director of AA Insurance, said the company "seriously considered" moving the call centres to India because it would have delivered long-term savings of £24m. The AA is to cut 100 jobs but has ruled out moving work overseas...

Tags: aa, call centre, india

[19 Aug 2005]

Virus alert: Zotob worm hits Windows 2000

News Mark Sinclair, technical services director at Trend Micro Australia, told ZDNet Australia that it was about to issue a yellow alert - which means the worm is being reported in at least two [global] regions and there is a high potential for damage...

Tags: zotob, windows 2000, virus, worm

[15 Aug 2005]

Sinclair Community College Leverages an Adaptive IT HP Infrastructure to Provide Innovative Educational Experiences

whitepaper Located in downtown Dayton, Ohio, Sinclair Community College has become one of the largest community college campuses in the U.S. Sinclair Community College deployed 3,600 HP Compaq Business Desktop dc7100, 500 HP Compaq Business Notebook nc8000...

Tags: infrastructure management, community, college, compaq

[09 Apr 2005]

My first computer: The Dragon 32

News 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.

Tags: dragon 32

[10 Feb 2005]

My first computer: The Commodore 64

News Thus far we've featured the BBC Micro, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, the Acorn Electron and the Vic-20. 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...

Tags: commodore 64

[03 Feb 2005]

My first computer: The Vic-20

News Thus far we've featured the BBC Micro, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and the Acorn Electron. This article was first published in February 2002 as part of our 'Technologies That Time Forgot' series. We are running the full series again to mark the recent...

Tags: vic-20

[27 Jan 2005]

My first computer: The BBC Micro

News 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...

Tags: commodore, bbc micro

[20 Jan 2005]

My first computer: The Acorn Electron

News However, the fact that Clive Sinclair was knighted in a previous Honours List gives a pretty clear indication as to who won the home computing battle of the 1980s. By the early eighties Acorn was enjoying great success with the BBC B - the computer...

Tags: acorn electron

[14 Jan 2005]

My first computer: The ZX Spectrum

News The ZX81 became the first Sinclair machine available on the high street and despite having just one kilobyte of RAM, no colour and a keyboard that a cash till would be ashamed of, 350,000 units were sold in the first year.

Tags: zx spectrum

[11 Jan 2005]

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