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On today’s date 29 years ago Sinclair Research launched the Sinclair QL professional computer. On January 12th 1984 - exactly 12 days earlier than Steve Jobs launched the Apple Macintosh - Sir Clive Sinclair and Nigel Searle presented the QL to the world in a Hollywood-style launch event at the Hotel Inter Continental in London.

Today I was browsing through my collection of pictures and uploaded those related to the launch event onto my Sinclair QL web gallery.
https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=C ... 0CE5A!3812

Beside of the pictures you’ll find two Web-Links of videos related to the launch event. The video of the press conference itself is not original footage; it’s filmed in 2009 with actors for the BBC docudrama Micro Men. Compare the original pictures with this video and you’ll see how authentic this scene was made.

Enjoy watching!

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Wow - looks a good machine - where can I get one?

As far as I know, the plug in Sinclair Expansion pictured was never released was it?

Have you ever gone through the provisional manual to see what changes were made after launch?


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Today is July 16th, a special day, Apollo 11 50th launch anniversary.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/50-years-a ... oon-begins

I kinda linked this to the QL and shot a short video for you guys to enjoy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGhuiEBbEho

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Are you having a mooch about? 8-)


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No. Even being on vacation, I‘m on my Sinclair history research mission, meeting former Sinclair employees for a chat and getting my hands on Sinclair artefacts. Watch out the sinclairql.net and QLvsJAGUAR web ressources in August.


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