He's Poked RAMTOP...
Sad to see him go... my introduction to computing was a Sinclair Cambridge programmable calculator that I bought for £8 in 1979... I was 12. That thing ate through 9V batteries, had 18 bytes of program storage (36 'steps') and an on-off switch seemingly made of sandpaper. But it got me into computing. Various better calculators later (thanks to my dad) I ended up with a ZX81... when it finally arrived!
Never had a Spectrum, but moved on to the Sinclair QL. I wasn't interested so much in games, as the pure enjoyment of programming. That was the last Sinclair device I ever got, and the most reliable. I stopped following my career in programming in the 90s, but I'm still in IT, thankfully.
So thank you, Clive, for being there to spark my imagination. Let's all raise a pint to the man without whom many of our careers would have turned a different path.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
