Media File: 1983
Sinclair in the News

Financial Times
December 10, 1983

Sinclair receives millionth Spectrum home computer

BY MARK MEREDITH, SCOTTISH CORRESPONDENT

SIR CLIVE SINCLAIR, chairman of Sinclair Research, was yesterday presented with the one millionth Spectrum computer to be produced for the home electronics market.

The presentation was made at the Timex plant in Dundee which produces both the Spectrum and the ZX81 computers for Sinclair. Sinclair management said that about 100,000 computers a month were being produced from the Dundee plant which is the main producer of the computers, although some are produced by EMI-Thorn at Feltham.

The pre-Christmas orders for computers were a "boom beyond expectations," according to senior Sinclair management, with more than 300,000 sent out to the UK market alone in the past three months.

The tube for the new Sinclair flat screen televisions is also produced at Dundee although the target of 10,000 sets to be assembled by Christmas is unlikely to be met.