1970s
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| 1970 |
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| June |
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| November |
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| December |
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| 1971 |
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| February |
- Radionics operation moves to Enderby's Mill, London
Rd, St Ives, Huntingdonshire
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| May |
- Sinclair Radionics profits £85,000 on turnover of
£563,000
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| June |
- Super
IC-12 integrated circuit amplifier announced
at £2.98
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| 1972 |
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May
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- Sinclair Radionics profits £97,000 on turnover of £761,000
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June
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- Executive
calculator launched at £79.95, wins Design Centre
Award
- Appoints Primary Contact as ad agency
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October
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| 1973 |
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| May |
- Sinclair Radionics generates a turnover of £1.8m
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| August |
- Sinclair Cambridge
calculator introduced at £29.95 exc. VAT built, £24.95
kit
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| September |
|
| November |
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| December |
- Project
80 revamp of Project
60 modules launched with advice on building
it into your furniture included
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| 1974 |
|
| February |
|
| April |
- Sinclair Scientific
calculator launched at £19.95 exc. VAT built, £14.95
kit
- DM1
multimeter launched but unavailable
|
| May |
- Sinclair Radionics profits £240,000 on turnover
of £4m
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| June |
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| November |
- Clive presented with Institute of Marketing award
- DM1
multimeter kit dropped to £24.95
- Sinclair Radionics Inc., USA founded with Nigel
Searle as President
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| 1975 |
|
| February |
- Ablesdeal Ltd becomes Westminster Mail Order Ltd
- DM2
digital multimeter launched at £59 exc. VAT
|
| March |
- Oxford
range of calculators launched: '100', £12.95; '200',
£19.95; '300', £29.95, exc. VAT
|
| April |
- Sinclair Radionics wins Queen's Award to Industry
- Sinclair Radionics profits £45,000 on turnover of
£6.3m
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| August |
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| November |
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| 1976 |
|
| January |
- Black
Watch available with 'totally in-house
designed chip' at £17.95 kit
|
| March |
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| April |
- Sinclair Radionics loss £355,000 on turnover of
£5.6m
- Black
Watch available built at £24.95
|
| July |
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| August |
- National Enterprise Board inject £650,000 capital
for 43 per cent stake in Sinclair Radionics
|
| October |
- National Research and Development Council agrees
to £1m input into flat-screen TV
|
| 1977 |
|
| January |
|
| February |
|
| April |
- Sovereign
calculator in 'brushed chrome' wins Design Centre
Award
- Sinclair Radionics loss £820,000 in previous twelve
months
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| July |
- NEB inject further £1.65m to take 73 per cent equity
in Sinclair Radionics, and extend loan facility of
£1m
- Norman Hewett appointed MD of Radionics on behalf
of NEB
- Sinclair Instruments Ltd becomes Science of Cambridge
Ltd
- Clive and Hewett visit Las Vegas electronics show
|
| October |
|
| November |
- Microquartz car clock produced for retail at £12.95
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| December |
- Sinclair Radionics loss £1.29m in previous eight
months
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| 1978 |
|
| |
- Design work starts on Clive Sinclair's first micro:
the machine that later became the NewBrain
|
| February |
|
| April |
|
| June |
- Science of Cambridge Ltd launch MK14
microcomputer kit at £39.95 exc. VAT
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| July |
- Norman Hewett leaves Radionics
- Science of Cambridge offer VDU module (£33.75),
cassette interface (£7.25) and PROM programming card
(£11.85) for MK14
- Enterprise
Programmable launched at £25
|
| September |
- Michael Pye appointed MD of Radionics
|
| November |
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| December |
- Sinclair Radionics loss £1.98m on £6.39m turnover.
Total NEB investment £4.45m, plus trading losses
|
| 1979 |
|
| March |
- Sinclair PFM
200 frequency meter launched at £49.80
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| April |
- Science of Cambridge commission ZX80
version of BASIC
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| May |
- NEB announces plans to sell off calculator and
TV interests of Sinclair Radionics
|
| July |
- Clive Sinclair resigns from Sinclair Radionics with
£10,000 golden handshake
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| August |
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| September |
- NEB shift instruments division into Sinclair Electronics
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| December |
- NEB loss totals £7.8m on Radionics operation
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