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Britain, 1979. To most people in the 70s, computers were monstrous, bleeping big-brother machines the size of a bus with hundreds of valves and great reels of magnetic tape. They were expensive to run and difficult to understand, and certainly, not something any of us would want at home. Clive Sinclair, a serial inventor, thought differently. He saw that the next step in modern computing was to create a small, affordable machine that could be used alongside our existing televisions and cassette players at home.