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Someone should make a British Kamen Rider with that as his Main Vehicle.

One of the best.

Bless him, he wanted to be different if Clive had help the Speccy would have been different…

I cant imagine driving this around in English rain. 😂

I remember Sir Clive talking about his interest in this. I think in a ql world mag.

I didn't believe it actually existed. There are probably dozens of the empty, finished cases lying around somewhere.

Very rare and special indeed! It would have been amazing to see what Sir Clive could have achieved in the 1990s, had the IBM PC not killed the competition.

Tony Tebby once wrote to me that the first versions of the "Futura" circuit boards were so bad that he had canceled the whole thing early on.

The text of the SQB manual was printed with a daisywheel printer with one of Tony Tebby's inhouse printing programs, similar to the later used "QPLQ" for Epson LQ printers. The former program was intelligent, as it leaves gaps on the paper, if the fount was changed to e.g. italic. Then you could change the daisywheel, the paper winded back ant printed the rest. Very clever. QJump later used "QPLQ" which used all inbuilt founts of the LQ printer. "QPLQ" and the former program were written in SuperBASIC. They both used non-proportional founts from the printer but set every letter "on the fly" to the place on paper, so it looks, as if you have used proportional founts. It worked a bit like "TeX", using similar "Escapes".

Three wheels and a low center of gravity make it very safe and stable.... Until you get broadsided by a truck!!!!!! No turn signals, no brake lights, NO LIGHTS PERIOD!!!! Oh yes it's perfectly safe, it should come with its own blindfold. 😆

great video.

Thank you for this most interesting look at the past of the QL. Much appreciated. Best regards.

there's no way you don't at least have grandma's keyboard from the age of dinosaurs around or something

He was trying to jump through to many loopholes with this vehicle that’s where it went wrong

The same people these days, "What in bloody hell were we thinking?!"

Maybe it's time to buy a new computer /s

hello do you tried USB -> ps2 converter for keyboards? or USB -> DIN converter?

Sir Clive Sinclair was 41 years to soon and the C5 wasn't a failure it was just really a prototype of what would involve into what we have today. Battery technology was unfairly rubbish in 1983 along with other materials. This should have been sold as toy and fun machine to enjoy as fun factor then it would have sold better. Clive Sinclair was way ahead of his time and a gunius unfortunatey Technology was against Sinclair and coming up with brave new amazing ideas. However, at that time of little technology developments of the 1980s was massive drawback. Sinclair's ideas never went unnoticed and have been improve upon with new technology. Even modern electric cars today are certainly not without problems and drawbacks and will never be perfected without the Solid-State -Battery technology and with self contained changing. Yes! I totally agree the ride height of the C5 was a death trap and it wasn't safe for public roads. although, the idea was ahead of its time and paved the way to our future of Electric Vehicles. 1984 - 30 year olds laughing at it from the drivers seat of an Escort XR3.40 years later. 2024 - 70 year olds riding to Tesco Express on their mobility scooters. Strange world

could find what keyboard protocol they use ps2 ect and hook up a Arduino to emulate the protocol onto the bus

What's the point of booting without a keyboard? Won't you be unable to do anything with the OS anyways? Are there NeXT keyboard emulators maybe, for example in the form of a microcontroller that hooks up to the keyboard port?

I love this Museum, fantastic experience

Love the Cambridge museum.

The keyboard was so much better.

Thank you for sharing !

I absolutely have to go and visit this museum. Thank you for sharing. 🤩

The most glorious period of Computer Industry Developmental Advancement - this ZX Prototype unit stands frozen in time as a perpetual testament. Sir Clive Made it So.

ZX Sonic 😅

I was over in the UK near Cambridge and popped in to CCH, quite a good Museum plenty to look at and interact with.

This was a great idea, far ahead of it's time and Sinclair knew it. It was supposed to lead to a battery powered car. We're only just there now. Shame it never worked out really - maybe we'd have those flying cars by now (see the end of BBC's 'Micro Men' 😉)

The DCE VT 100 terminal, notoriously linked to the Therac-25 radiation therapy machine's fatal malfunction due to faulty programming code."

Who's watching in 2024?

Wonderful insights. This machine was a such big part of my childhood. I am now a programmer and engineer. Thanks for posting ❤

thank you for sharing, already 40 years old!

Thank you all for keeping the Sinclair QL alive in 2024. Happy 40th anniversary Sinclair QL. PS: Music was too loud, overpowering, I couldn't really hear what you were saying during the video.

Thank you for this video.

Love the video. What a treasure trove of computers. Every time I look at the QL, it is such a beautiful design. I had the QL, Spectrun 48k, ZX81 and the Sinclair Calculator. Wow! I remembered the CST Thor. Good memories.

Loved the video but the music overlay was just a bit too loud (couldn't hear the commentary). Pleased you uploaded.

The Sinclair C5 was not safe, durable or reliable. It was potentialy quite dangerous. My late father worked for Suffolk County Council Highways (as a road safety officer at the time). The leaflet handed out by "ROSPA" (for the C5) was a joke.

Superbasic is still the benchmark today

Oh yes........ They were the days. Me and my other half fondly remember all this stuff. We were only 13 year old kids at the time. We are now 52, teenage sweethearts back then, and still going strong. Goodness, how time has passed, and The Late Sir Clive Marles Sinclair is no longer with us. RIP Sir Clive Nina and Wayne ❤️❤️❤️❤️🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🫡🫡🫡🫡😌😌😌😌😌😌😌😌😌

Emperor's new clothes.

Electric cars were better in 1899 than in 1980 go figure 😅😅😅

sir Clive a great guy fond memories of my sincl

It's too bad that this technology lead nowhere. Always beware of the latest "hot" technology, including AI.

can i have one

please

can i get one?

I am so glad I watched this video and you rescued these gems. My second home computer was a Sinclair QL which I bought when launched in the UK. This brings back many fond memories and was a machine ahead of it's time. I eventually sold it after a few years when the PC era came in, but I am glad I didn't throw it away. I sold it to a collector at the time in the early 1990s. What a machine that was, and such a beautifully looking design.

What is the grey plate on place of expansion slot on last QL?

Excellent video