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Does anyone remember this a Sinclair C5?

  • 17-09-2014 11:26pm
    #1
    mannionjp
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭


    Does anyone remember this a Sinclair C5?


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  • #2
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    sinclair_c5.jpg
    They look great fun!
    Were there ever released here?
    A heavily modified C5 reached a top speed of 150 miles per hour (240 km/h) and accelerated from 0 to 60 mph in 5 seconds taking the speed record for an electric vehicle.[6] The C5 also became the world's first electric stunt vehicle when it was driven through a 70 ft tunnel of fire.[7] A "turbo conversion" converting the C5 to 24 volts and boosting the speed to 27–30 miles per hour (43–48 km/h) is available.[8]
    O_O


  • #3
    rubadub
    Registered Users Posts: 32,373 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    Yes, Clive Sinclair was a sort of Mr. Dyson back in the 80's. The C5 was widely ridiculed at the time.


  • #4
    mannionjp
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭mannionjp


    Professey Chin wrote:
    They look great fun! Were there ever released here?


    Hi I honestly don't know if they were released here by Sinclair but there some where in the country that sold them I think now I could be wrong? In the past two days I must of nearly clocked up at least 60 kms and boy are they fun to drive!!! They are the future of the past


  • #5
    C.K Dexter Haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,711 ✭✭✭C.K Dexter Haven


    They were certainly ahead of their time but just weren't practical for busy London streets. I don't think the battery lasted long either but it didn't deserve the ridicule it got as we may yet be limited to such devices in years to come if we want to enter our cities in a car like contraption.

    Sinclair himself is still alive- only 74- I thought he was older than that, sorry Clive:P
    The ZX81 and ZX spectrum that Clive also produced for are responsible for bringing computer programming to the masses. I reckon anyone in a senior IT role over 40 has played with a ZX or spectrum back in the day.


  • #6
    WomanSkirtFan8
    Registered Users Posts: 768 ✭✭✭WomanSkirtFan8


    C.K Dexter Haven wrote: »
    They were certainly ahead of their time but just weren't practical for busy London streets. I don't think the battery lasted long either but it didn't deserve the ridicule it got as we may yet be limited to such devices in years to come if we want to enter our cities in a car like contraption.

    Sinclair himself is still alive- only 74- I thought he was older than that, sorry Clive:P
    The ZX81 and ZX spectrum that Clive also produced for are responsible for bringing computer programming to the masses. I reckon anyone in a senior IT role over 40 has played with a ZX or spectrum back in the day.

    Think one of those turned up in an early episode of Red Dwarf Series 1!


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  • #7
    gugleguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,959 ✭✭✭gugleguy


    C.K Dexter Haven wrote: »
    I reckon anyone in a senior IT role over 40 has played with a ZX or spectrum back in the day.
    I now fly hubsan mini quadcopters.

    Getting back to the point, there was a news item back in the day on a C5 user's experience in Cork City.


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