Tristan Donovan, a U.K. writer who has contributed to Edge and The Guardian*, has just released a new book called* Replay: The History of Video Games. Wired.com is pleased to share several excerpts ...

Industrial designer who gave the ZX80, ZX81 and ZX Spectrum their distinctive look has died of cancer in the US The designer of the Sinclair Spectrum home computer, Rick Dickinson, has died of cancer ...

[Retro Shack’s] ZX81 died, and while he tried to figure out the fix, he decided to build a new one. Of course, building a circa-1980-something computer from new parts is a bit daunting. Unless you ...

A digital watch that kept poor time and might explode. A keyboard that felt like typing on a corpse. A three-wheeled electric “car” that couldn’t power its way uphill. No successful products for ...

Sir Clive Sinclair, the entrepreneur and inventor widely known for bringing one of the most popular early gaming PCs to the masses, has died aged 81. Per The Guardian, Sinclair's daughter, Belinda, ...

Thirty years ago this month, Clive Sinclair launched a computer that he hoped would change the world. In the majority of cases it only changed the way people played primitive computer games, but it ...

Sir Clive Sinclair, the British inventor, has died today at the age of 81, and though it's the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and its impact on personal computing that will go down as his biggest success, it's ...