From Eurogamer’s obituary of Sir Clive Sinclair:
Sinclair never intended for his computers to be games machines, butthat was what the market decided they were. Within the space of a fewyears, the idea of having a computer in the home had gone from afantasy for all but the wealthiest businessmen to a reality, even forcouncil estate kids.
By "serious", I don't mean word processor or spreadsheet or any business app. We all know there were some. Was any serious number crunching ever done on the speccy? 8 * 8 bits = 64 bits, so we can do 64-bit arithmetic on the speccy, but it wouldn't run very fast. You'd have to write assembly routines and even then it would be slow. Still, there's enough room at least. Would a speccy suffice for the Nazi mothership from "Iron Sky"?
