Feb 10, 2022
Sinclair C5 (1985)
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Sinclair C5 (1985)
Sinclair C5
1985
E.T. riding a Sinclair C5 at the The Centre for Computing History, Cambridge, UK.
Sir Clive Sinclair
Today marks the 60th birthday of the BBC children’s magazine show Blue Peter
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The show’s editor, Biddy Baxter, denied that he was sacked the following year because he was gay: "It was his leaving the programme because children didn’t like him – nothing to do with his sexual proclivities"
Sadly he died of AIDS in 1989, aged 28
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In the waning days of the Retrofuture, the hoped for jetpacks and flying cars had given way to...this. The Sinclair C5 was little more than a short-range electric tricycle that could attain a less than impressive 15 miles per hour top speed.
This Reagan-Thatcher Era proto-Segway was created by English entrepreneur and inventor Sir Clive Sinclair and was an instantaneous commercial flop. The vehicle later developed a small cult following with some C5 enthusiasts substantially “modding” their C5s.