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The BBC just pipped Sinclair to the post when it released the first UK colour home computer, the BBC Micro, in 1982, but it was the ZX Spectrum which stole the hearts and minds of the nation. Clive Sinclair was very much the Steve Jobs of the day, as evidenced by his quote from the review:

“We believe the BBC makes the best TV programmes - and that Sinclair makes the world’s best computers!”

You can read some more about the spectrum in a previous post