💬 Friday thread: your first computer

Sir Clive Sinclair, the British computer pioneer, died this week. He was an innovator whose ZX line of personal computers had a dramatic influence on public uptake of the technology in the early 1980s.

The first computer I ever owned was a Sinclair ZX-81. I even wrote about my experiences with it in my new book.

I picked it up in the autumn of 1981, a yea…