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# Home computing pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair dies aged 81
- URL: https://werd.io/home-computing-pioneer-sir-clive-sinclair-dies-aged-81/
- Published: 2021-09-16T23:15:22.000Z
- Updated: 2021-09-16T23:15:22.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:24

"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. 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. It sold 50,000, units while its successor, the ZX81, which replaced it, cost £69.95 and sold 250,000." The ZX81 was my formative first computer. Rest in peace, sir.

\[[Link](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/sep/16/home-computing-pioneer-sir-clive-sinclair-dies-aged-81)\]