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The Speccy was released in April 1982 at £125 for the 16K model and £175 for 48K, dropping as time went on. Sinclair was swamped with orders. It held its own against the Commodore 64, and British competitors such as the [[BBC Micro]] and [[Amstrad CPC]]. Sales figures went into the millions, mostly of the 48K model, and it brought Britain into the home computer age (and earned its inventor, Clive Sinclair, a knighthood <ref>{well, except for the little fact that Uncle Clive had nothing to do with the ''design'' of any of his company computer products; Speccy hardware was designed by Sinclair Research's Richard Altwasser, and Steve Vickers of the Nine Tiles wrote the system software, including Basic 48}</ref>). |
The Speccy was released in April 1982 at £125 for the 16K model and £175 for 48K, dropping as time went on. Sinclair was swamped with orders. It held its own against the Commodore 64, and British competitors such as the [[BBC Micro]] and [[Amstrad CPC]]. Sales figures went into the millions, mostly of the 48K model, and it brought Britain into the home computer age (and earned its inventor, Clive Sinclair, a knighthood <ref>{well, except for the little fact that Uncle Clive had nothing to do with the ''design'' of any of his company computer products; Speccy hardware was designed by Sinclair Research's Richard Altwasser, and Steve Vickers of the Nine Tiles wrote the system software, including Basic 48}</ref>). |
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The Spectrum+, introduced in 1984, replaced the rubber keyboard with a plastic one, modeled after the failed Sinclair QL (an abortive attempt to create a business machine to compete with the IBM PC), and fixed some graphics bugs. The third and final Sinclair Spectrum was the 128, in 1986. This had 128K of RAM, an even better BASIC, [[MIDI]], a monitor port, and three-channel sound. |
The Spectrum+, introduced in 1984, replaced the rubber keyboard with a plastic one, modeled after the failed [[w:Sinclair QL|Sinclair QL]] (an abortive attempt to create a business machine to compete with the IBM PC), and fixed some graphics bugs. The third and final Sinclair Spectrum was the 128, in 1986. This had 128K of RAM, an even better BASIC, [[MIDI]], a monitor port, and three-channel sound. |
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Amstrad bought Sinclair in 1986 and continued improving the Speccy with a full-travel keyboard, an internal cassette drive, and finally with a disk drive in 1987. But these later models have backward-compatibility problems. |
Amstrad bought Sinclair in 1986 and continued improving the Speccy with a full-travel keyboard, an internal cassette drive, and finally with a disk drive in 1987. But these later models have backward-compatibility problems. |
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