clive sinclair

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

Clive Sinclair
    n 1: English electrical engineer who founded a company that
         introduced many innovative products (born in 1940) [syn:
         {Sinclair}, {Clive Sinclair}, {Sir Clive Marles Sinclair}]

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

Clive Sinclair
Sinclair, Clive

   <person> Sir Clive Sinclair (1939- ) The British inventor who
   pioneered the home {microcomputer} market in the early 1980s,
   with the introduction of low-cost, easy to use, {8-bit}
   computers produced by his company, {Sinclair Research}.

   Sir Clive also invented and produced a variety of electronic
   devices from the 1960s to 1990s, including pocket calculators
   (he marketed the first pocket calculator in the world),
   radios and televisions.  Perhaps he is most famous (or some
   might say notorious) for his range electric vehicles,
   especially the Sinclair C5, introduced in 1985.  He has been a
   member of MENSA, the high IQ society, since 1962.

   Planet Sinclair (http://nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/).

   ["The Sinclair Story", Rodney Dale, pub. Duckworth 1985]

   (1998-11-09)