It’s an auspicious moment for retrocomputing fans, as it’s now four decades since the launch of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. This budget British microcomputer was never the best of the bunch, but its ...

Richard Trenholm was CNET's film and TV editor, covering the big screen, small screen and streaming. A member of the Film Critic's Circle, he's covered technology and culture from London's tech scene ...

Looking back from a world of smartphones and Xboxes, it’s astonishing that such a commercially successful product could have happened with this unglamorous and flawed piece of equipment. Yes, I’m a ...

Clive Sinclair, who invented the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, an early personal computer, died of cancer Thursday at age 81, his family confirmed. Sinclair was an inventor with an impressive list of ...

A former Sinclair employee explains why the company behind the iconic ZX Spectrum refused to understand its importance to a generation of gamers. Luke Westaway is a senior editor at CNET and writer/ ...

The home computing pioneer created the ZX models, the first slimline pocket calculator and an early electric vehicle venture. Clive Sinclair, the British inventor and entrepreneur who developed the ZX ...

First published in the Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper. Pride of place in my technology archive is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, one of the earliest and most impactful computers. It was created by that ...

The affordability of Sinclair’s revolutionary 1982 home computer let a generation of young bedroom coders make anarchic, punky games, and its hardware limitations merely fostered extra creativity ...

The awesome Sinclair ZX Spectrum was my second computer and followed on from the 1K ZX81, providing the first taste of colour and a larger memory capable of playing games such as JetPac, Manic Miner ...

UPDATE 03/12/2014: The Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega IndieGoGo crowdfunding campaign is a success. After just two days its £100,000 goal was met. The first 1000 limited edition Vega computers are sold out ...