![]() In 1982, he released the ZX Spectrum 48K. The business mogul Lord Sugar paid tribute to his “good friend and competitor” on Twitter, writing: “What a guy he kickstarted consumer electronics in the UK with his amplifier kits then calculators, watches mini TV and of course the Sinclair ZX. The ZX80 and ZX81 made him very rich: in 2010 Sinclair told the Guardian: “Within two or three years, we made £14m profit in a year.” ![]() Many games industry veterans got their start typing programs into its touch-based keyboard and became hooked on games such as as 3D Monster Maze and Mazogs. It sold 50,000, units while its successor, the ZX81, which replaced it, cost £69.95 and sold 250,000. At £79.95 in kit form and £99.95 assembled, it was about one-fifth of the price of other home computers at the time. His first home computer, the ZX80, named after the year it appeared, revolutionised the market, although it was a far cry from today’s models. ![]() “He wanted to make things small and cheap so people could access them,” his daughter said. In the early 1970s he designed a series of calculators designed to be small and light enough to fit in the pocket at a time when most existing models were the size of an old-fashioned shop till. ![]()
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