In 1980, Clive Sinclair entered the home computer market with the ZX80 at £99.95, at the time the cheapest personal computer for sale in the UK. In 1982 the ZX Spectrum was released, later becoming Britain's best selling computer, competing aggressively against Commodore and Amstrad. At the height of its success, and largely inspired by the Japanese Fifth Generation Computer programme, the company established the "MetaLab" research centre at Milton Hall (near Cambridge), in order to pursue artificial intelligence, wafer-scale integration, formal verification and other advanced projects. The combination of the failures of the Sinclair QL computer and the TV80 led to financial difficulties in 1985, and a year later Sinclair sold the rights to their computer products and brand name to Amstrad. Sinclair Research Ltd still exists today as a one man company, continuing to market Sir Clive Sinclair's newest inventions.
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Sinclair ZX81 1981
Sinclair ZX Spectrum 1982
Sinclair ZX Spectrum + 1984
Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2 1986
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Sinclair ZX81 1981
Sinclair ZX Spectrum 1982
Sinclair ZX Spectrum + 1984
Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2 1986