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Sinclair Research was founded in Cambridge, England, by Sir Clive Sinclair in 1973. It was founded as a consumer electronics company, and it entered the home computer market in 1980 with the Sinclair ZX 80. This home computer retailed for £99.95, and it was the cheapest and smallest home computer in the United Kingdom at that time.
The ZX Spectrum home computer was introduced in 1982, and it became the bestselling computer in the United Kingdom at that time. Its main competitor was the BBC microcomputer produced by Acorn Computers. However, the BBC micro was twice as expensive machine, and the ZX Spectrum gained major market share. It led to a boom in companies providing hardware and software for the Spectrum, and Clive Sinclair received a knighthood for his services to British industry.
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O’Regan, G. (2015). Sinclair Research Ltd.. In: Pillars of Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21464-1_31
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