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title: "Interview with Clive Sinclair"
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published_at: "2020-10-27T17:18:24+00:00"
modified_at: "2024-06-23T00:44:11+00:00"
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excerpt: "Clive Sinclair is the man behind the first mass pocket calculator, the first scientific calculator kit and, now, a mass-market computer. David Ahl talked to Clive while in London at the PCW show."
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Clive Sinclair is the man behind the first mass pocket calculator, the first scientific calculator kit and, now, a mass-market computer. David Ahl talked to Clive while in London at the PCW show.