London: British inventor and entrepreneur Clive Sinclair, who worked the most to encourage an entire generation of children in the field of computer and gaming, has died. He was 81 years old. Sinclair, who came into the limelight in the early 1980s with the release of a wide range of affordable home computers, died Thursday morning after a long battle with cancer.
His daughter Belinda Sinclair told that her father, despite being unwell, was working on new inventions till the last minute. Belinda told the BBC: “He was inventive and imaginative and it was exciting and thrilling for him. It was his passion.”
Born in 1940 in Richmond, a suburb of southwest London, Sinclair dropped out of school at the age of 17 and switched to technical journalism. After this, he took a new path with new inventions. At the age of 22, he formed his first company, Sinclair Radionics.
