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Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (born July 30 , 1940 near Richmond Upon Thames ), is a British Entrepreneur and Inventor of, among other things, the world's first small electronic Pocket Calculator ( Sinclair Executive ), in 1972 and the ZX Spectrum computer in 1982 . Sinclair was fascinated from his teenage years by electronics. In 1961 he started his own company, Sinclair Radionics Ltd , after spending several years as assistant editor for ''Practical Wireless'' and ''Instrument Practice'' to raise funds for his company.

In recent years Sinclair has become a keen poker player and appeared in the first three seasons of the Late Night Poker TV series. He won the first season final of the Celebrity Poker Club spin-off, defeating Keith Allen .


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FURTHER READING

  • Adamson, Ian; Kennedy, Richard (1986). ''Sinclair and the "Sunrise" Technology''. London: Penguin Books. 224 pp. ISBN 0140087745.

  • Dale, Rodney (1985). ''The Sinclair Story''. London: Duckworth. 184 pp. ISBN 0715619012.



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