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Uncle Clive's Radionics


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TCW Podcast Episode 130 - Uncle Clive's Radionics

 

We look at Sir Clive Sinclair in his early years dealing with creation of electronics for hobbyists.  Sir Clive held a passion for miniaturization and doing so at a low cost.  This started with audio equipment, amplifiers, high fidelity stereo, and FM radios.  This continued into calculators, and digital watches.  Sir Clive wanted to look into miniature TVs, and procured funding through the NEB.  In an act of prescience he founded a second company that eventually became Sinclair Research to serve as a life boat if things went bad with the NEB.  Sinclair Research, then known as the Science of Cambridge, produced the first domestic computer in the United Kingdom the MK 14!  Sir Clive eventually left Sinclair Radionics after the disasterous launch of the Black Watch.  A watch that when shocked had the potential to overload, and explode. 

 

What is High Fidelity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0LWnpzdrW4

Sinclair Black Watch Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXSNDPeSC1c

Cambridge MK14 Computer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_vhWxu-spA

Sinclair Mini TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqqFY8MUWLo

Goldeneye on a Sinclair TV80: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auWKrlmZ3t0

 

New episodes on the 1st and 15th of every month!

 

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Twitter: @tcwpodcast

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theycreateworlds

Alex's Video Game History Blog: http://videogamehistorian.wordpress.com

Alex's book is available for preorder and should be released through CRC Press in December 2019: http://bit.ly/TCWBOOK1

 

Intro Music: Josh Woodward - Airplane Mode -  Music - "Airplane Mode" by Josh Woodward. Free download:http://joshwoodward.com/song/AirplaneMode 

Outro Music: RolemMusic - Bacterial Love - http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic/Pop_Singles_Compilation_2014/01_rolemusic_-_bacterial_love 

 

Copyright: Attribution: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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