Re: Sinclair was the poster child of the UK technology sector until then...
Only to those who didn’t know him personally or had not worked for him back in the days of rebadged reject transistors, calculators that didnt work and lasted 5 seconds, kits that didn't work, pocket TVs that never worked...etc.
Random monkeys dictated that a halfway good designer and a certain emerging market and Clive coincided to make a zx80. Still a piece of utter junk, but sufficiently amusing to be bought anyway.