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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.
[28 Apr 2008]
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]
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...
[18 Apr 2008]
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...
[02 Apr 2008]
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...
[01 Apr 2008]
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.
[12 Dec 2007]
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.
[12 Dec 2007]
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...
[12 Mar 2007]
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...
[23 Jun 2006]
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...
[08 Nov 2005]
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...
[19 Oct 2005]
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...
[19 Aug 2005]
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...
[15 Aug 2005]
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...
[09 Apr 2005]
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.
[10 Feb 2005]
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...
[03 Feb 2005]
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...
[27 Jan 2005]
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...
[20 Jan 2005]
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...
[14 Jan 2005]
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.
[11 Jan 2005]
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