He was a giant compared to all the nobodies knighted and enobled by the last government.
Despite his computers being very shonky, affordable computers from Sinclair, Amstrad and others drove a UK wide computing revolution which led many of us to have the careers we do today.
Absolutely had a net positive outcome. Was also a self boosting prat. The Sinclair electric car summed him up in many ways: overpromised and under delivered time after time.
But the zx80 and spectrum, bootstrapped thousands into computers in the home. BBC micro came one year after, absolute beast of a product by comparison. The acorn atom which proceeded it was meh (i had one)
Despite his computers being very shonky, affordable computers from Sinclair, Amstrad and others drove a UK wide computing revolution which led many of us to have the careers we do today.