ZX Spectrum/Quotes

The Spectrum is the most well-documented computer in the Soviet Union... there are now at least 20 different Spectrum clones in Leningrad alone

You cannot exaggerate Clive Sinclair's influence on the world... All your UK video game companies today were built on the shoulders of giants who made games for the ZX Spectrum."

Sinclair's original ZX Spectrum, launched in 16kB and 48kB flavours in 1982, was the great success story of the British computing industry.

I make computers because they are a good market, and they are interesting to design. I don't feel bad about making them, or selling them for money or anything, there is a demand for them and they do no harm; but I don't think they are going to save the world.

[IBM] have a board about this big - the size of a large coffee-table book... and that is just to do colour. We do it on one chip.

If we announce a product now, it is because we are ready for production. With the Spectrum, we had the pilot run before the launch and those were the models at the launch. The following week it went into production, just like that.

[The ZX81] started off a proud tradition of teenage boys persuading their parents to buy them kit with the excuse that it was going to be educational. It was no use for school at all, but we persuaded our parents to do it, and then we just ended up playing games on them.

No-one knew they wanted a computer. It was just the right product, at the right time, at the right price.