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I see Sir Clive Sinclair has died, I once built one of his Stereo 60 amps but never got into his computers being more into starting out on a Vic 20 before moving onto PETs and BBC model B.

Anyone here ever owned a C5?

Richard

I had a ZX81 (built from a kit) but not a C5.

No, but I had a Spectrum and learned the Basic programming language from it which I still use a version of today.

Tricky Dicky wrote: ↑Thu Sep 16, 2021 9:52 pm I see Sir Clive Sinclair has died, I once built one of his Stereo 60 amps but never got into his computers being more into starting out on a Vic 20 before moving onto PETs and BBC model B.

Anyone here ever owned a C5?

Richard

My route into computing (I became a teacher of computing) was similar to yours except I never built a stereo.
PET computers BBC model A's then B's then Master's. Then PC's - into building my own PC a few times, multiple upgrades of my own and others.

Now I stick to ready built top end computers and laptops for me as computer fairs to buy cheap parts are sadly no more. (Before computer fairs I attended a number of model rail fairs of the same type but they're no more either, replaced by either club offerings or big shows like York.)

teedoubleudee wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 8:29 am No, but I had a Spectrum and learned the Basic programming language from it which I still use a version of today.

We still have a Spectrum

i had a small fleet of C5,s which i hired out from our scottish shop. Much sought after, but batteries were always the problem.