His big swing was the Sinclair QL in 1984, just weeks before the Macintosh launched. It was meant to be a proper business computer with a proper graphical interface, multitasking, and everything. He called it “Quantum Leap” because he genuinely thought it was going to change everything.
It had a mouse, windows, icons — proper GUI stuff for the time. But it was rushed, buggy as hell, and the microdrives were a nightmare. It never really took off like the Spectrum did.
Here’s what the man himself looked like, the legendary ZX Spectrum that made him famous, and the ambitious Sinclair QL he hoped would be his Apple killer.
