30 years ago today, launch of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum!

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Friday, April 23th 1982 - At a press conference at the Churchill Hotel, Clive Sinclair revealed to the world his new personal computer, the ZX Spectrum. The rest is history!

Happy 30th birthday anniversary, Speccy!

My birthday present is a video (follow link) for you guys to enjoy!
http://youtu.be/Kh4hkIyjdNE

Sinclair ZX Spectrum
30th Birthday Anniversary 2012
The Movie

Please have a look to the video description for more information including a *News Ticker* plus a download link to the exclusive "Media Kit".

Feel free to share/spread/use this as you like.

Cheers, Urs
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The whole thing is not completely OT, there’s some QL relevant stuff in both the “Movie” and the “Media Kit”.

In the movie http://youtu.be/Kh4hkIyjdNE there’s an original QL (UK edition), a double paged early days QL ad taken out of a UK computer magazine and boxes of original QL software visible in the background on the third (from left) shelf. Above this shelf there’s A3 sized copy of the 1985 German QL flyer. Below the shelf there’s an original retail box of a QL. On the shelf in the middle of the picture, there’s another QL (German edition) with a Sinclair badged FloppyDiskDrive.

In the “Media Kit” which can be downloaded using the link in the video description of movie http://youtu.be/Kh4hkIyjdNE are - apart from the movie and many pictures used for the movie or related to the Speccy’s 30th birthday anniversary – four PDF’s from which one is a “Sinclair QL world” magazine scan.

22.04.2012 22:00 3'405'043 1982-00_Who's_who_at_Sinclair.pdf
The "Who's who at Sinclair 1982" document has been scanned for preservation by former Sinclair Research Ltd employee John Mathieson this January and OCR’d by me last Sunday April 22nd 2012. This original Sinclair Research Ltd document has 26 pages and is the company’s directory of 1982 with pictures of all six offices and profiles of all 44 employees with a portrait picture of each of them. QLers, have a look to the last guy on page 4.

22.04.2012 22:00 25'642'262 1982-06_PCW_Sinclair_ZX_Spectrum_first_review_by_David_Tebbutt_ZX81_ads_Information_Technology_Year.pdf
16 pages of the June 1982 issue of “Personal Computer World” (PCW) magazine including the first ever review of the ZX Spectrum by David Tebbutt (cover plus 4 pages), an article on the 1982 “Information Technology Year” (2 pages), ZX81 related ads by Sinclair Research Ltd (3 pages), “Newsprint” by Guy Kewney with Sinclair relevant information (3 pages), “Contents” and “Chip Chat” (3 pages).

22.04.2012 22:06 2'983'821 1982-12_su_annual_1983_Sinclair_ZX_Spectrum_ad.pdf
The two pages ZX Spectrum ad (referenced SUS812) as printed in the “sinclair user annual 1983”.

22.04.2012 22:18 5'652'476 1992-08_QLW_Sinclair_ZX_Spectrum_10th_anniversary_party_John_Mathieson_white_Spectrum_COWO_QL_trader.pdf
5 pages of the August 1992 issue of “Sinclair QL World” (QLW) magazine including a report on the ZX Spectrum 10th birthday party by Simon N Goodwin (cover plus 2 pages). This party was held in May 1992 at the Boat House Pub in Cambridge. Star guest included John Mathieson (then working at Flare II Ltd developing the ATARI JAGUAR) and MGT founder Bruce Gordon. John presented a white 48K model, produced to celebrate the millionth machine produced, and a unique Spectrum Plus, also moulded in white plastic as an experiment when Sinclair considered changing the case colour for the new model. This magazine scan includes a report of a QL users meeting held in London, the 1992 “Instant” list of QL traders (where my former company COWO Electronic is listed) and the “Micro Ads” page which hold an ad by my former company offering my QL product range of that time.

All PDFs are based on scans of originals and are fully searchable (OCR’d).

Enjoy!

Cheers, Urs

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Thanks Urs, for a nostalgic range of information