00:30people's real needs, to develop products which have real benefit to people in whatever way,
00:36and to do that at a price that they can afford, to do for 10p what anyone can do for a pound.
00:42Sir Clive Sinclair, you knew who he was, some great British inventor, but I don't think
00:47we sort of realised at the time the significance of what he was innovating in and what it would
00:52lead to.
00:53My father was always thinking about the next invention, new ideas, that was where his heart
00:59was, so he wanted to come up with something completely new that everybody would adopt,
01:03and that's really what his goal was, to have a product that everybody wanted and everybody
01:07needed.
01:08Clive was an innovator, you need these people, they're the engines of industry, people that
01:14are prepared to take a risk, stick their neck out, and Clive Sinclair was a risk taker in
01:19the best way.
01:20I think of him as a boffin who understood what was important to people, and how he could
01:27bring the future into their lives at a decent price.
01:32One of the strengths of Clive was that he was newsworthy, he was a personality, he was
01:37a bit of a maverick, people wanted to know what was he going to say, what was he going
01:40to do next.
01:51The spectrum was there at the time when it was affordable for parents to say, yeah, we
01:55can stretch it out.
01:56The spectrum was ideal, you'd go to a shop, pick it up, you'd unbox it, plug it in.
02:04I thought it was the coolest thing I had ever seen.
02:08The rainbow strike on the bottom right, it's a thing of absolute beauty, and the Sinclair
02:12logo itself, the font, get out of town.
02:15It was just so successful.
02:22The amount of games that we used to get to was just incredible.
02:26The games played really made the spectrum the success that it was.
02:35To me, it just made it possible to get into computing.
02:39That's the spectral experience.
02:40It's one of the few times that I dug my heels in and said, Clive, we're hiring her, or I'm
02:46leaving.
02:47When Clive was targeting those early adopterists, innovators, he was happiest.
02:53This was cheap, it was in different houses, it was colour, beautiful.
02:56It gave the tools of production to the hands of millions.
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