Sinclair
Being born in the UK in 1981, my articles about home computers are biased towards that time and place. This is due to both my own personal experience, and also a conscious attempt to provide an alternative UK bias to the predominant US bias amongst people my age reminiscing about home computers.
Sinclair was a small British company (technically several small British companies) that essentially aspired to be Casio, but wasn't that good.
Their home computers, chiefly the ZX Spectrum, brought computing to the masses and taught a nation of 1980s teenagers to program.
At the other end of the credibility scale, they were widely mocked for the C5, an electric recumbent tricycle powered by a washing machine motor. The C5 looked like a very dangerous attempt at an electric car, decades ahead of such a thing being technologically feasible.
Computer manufacturers: Digital Research | Sinclair
Sinclair: Soviet ZX Spectrum clones | ZX Spectrum | ZX Spectrum 128
