Sinclair Research

<p>Sinclair Research Ltd is a British consumer electronics company founded by <a href="/facts/Clive_Sinclair/t5eqanJQ">Clive Sinclair</a> in <a href="/facts/Cambridge/gNRdbmwK">Cambridge</a> in the 1970s. In 1980, the company entered the <a href="/facts/Home_computer/CDEPVd1T">home computer</a> market with the <a href="/facts/ZX80/n7G0FJeW">ZX80</a> at £99.95, at that time the cheapest personal computer for sale in the United Kingdom. A year later, the <a href="/facts/ZX81/I0uDYb3n">ZX81</a> became available through retailers, introducing home computing to a generation, with more that 1.5 million sold. In 1982 the <a href="/facts/ZX_Spectrum/JVbaDHrU">ZX Spectrum</a> was released, becoming the UK's best selling computer, and competing aggressively against <a href="/facts/Commodore_International/SlfXKbCN">Commodore</a> and <a href="/facts/Amstrad/rXhrLd2U">Amstrad</a>.
</p><p>A combination of the failures of the <a href="/facts/Sinclair_QL/Dn5dIVkR">Sinclair QL</a> computer and the <a href="/facts/TV80/LQDVzNu3">TV80</a> pocket television led to financial difficulties in 1985, and a year later Sinclair sold the rights to its computer products and brand name to Amstrad. Sinclair Research Ltd continued to exist as a one-man company, marketing Clive Sinclair's inventions.
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