Home Computer Pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair Dies Aged 81

Sir Clive Sinclair, founder and chairman of Sinclair Research, at the launch of the Sinclair 2-inch pocket television, in a file photo on Oct. 16, 1983. PA Images

Home computing pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair has died at the age of 81.

His daughter Belinda Sinclair told the Guardian that the pocket calculator trailblazer and the brains behind the Spectrum home computer died at his home in London on Thursday morning.