You had to be there and experience the severe underwhelming emotion of yet another Clive Sinclair oversell. Late delivery, underperformed and semi illegal.
This was the emotional nail in the coffin for many.<p>Sinclair was a proto Musk, over hyping his deliveries. We had an op-amp based hifi kit, noise levels off the roof and blew 3 power transistors fixing earthing issues in his design and build instructions. The Sinclair programmable calculator which won a V&A design award for its styling had bad 4bit trig arithmetic logic which could not calculate the reverse of its own functions to the same value. The Sinclair QL tapedrive units.. the list is endless.<p>Classic "not the nine o clock news" joke: the Sinclair electronic penis: black, 1" long and takes 28 days to come.<p>Most of the C5 were acquired as static adverts for a chain of gyms