That's a perspective I've never heard. In the US, Sinclair was never a particularly famous figure. I knew who he was - his name was on the TS-1000 my parents bought me when I outgrew the Atari 2600's BASIC Programming cartridge - but that's about all he was, a name on some funky hardware. I was under the impression he was kind of thought of as UK's Nikola Tesla or something.
> I was under the impression he was kind of thought of as UK's Nikola Tesla or something.
He was a brilliant self publicist. Nobody in the British computing or related digital electronics industry thought he was a second Tesla. The public at large was totally being sold that kind of line, not that Tesla's name was ever mentioned in those days by anyone. Same with Lord Sugar and amstrad.
Dyson gets similar accolades these days. Or Jony Ive.
