Reply to post: Re: Sinclair Scientific

Thanks, Sir Clive Sinclair, from Reg readers whose careers you created and lives you shaped

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Re: Sinclair Scientific

Ah yes, bought mine in my first year at Uni. £28 if I remember rightly. A full grant that year was £660. so probably the equivalent of a few hundred quid now, the price of a mid-range smartphone.

Reverse Polish was a pain. And it was fun that if you asked for Sin/Cos/Tan over 90 degrees the processing time got longer and longer.

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