Computing pioneer Clive Sinclair dies at 81
The Hindu
Clive Sinclair's groundbreaking products included the first portable electronic calculator in 1972.
Clive Sinclair, the British inventor who pioneered the pocket calculator and affordable home computers, reportedly died on Thursday at the age of 81.
He passed away at his home in London after fighting cancer for more than a decade, UK media said, prompting tributes from many who fondly recalled their first experience of computing in the early 1980s.
He was still working on inventions last week "because that was what he loved doing", his daughter Belinda Sinclair told the BBC.

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