Sinclair SC110 Oscilloscope

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  1. Mister X

    Mister X Moderator Staff Member

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    I'm just posting this because I've never seen one and it's so cool looking, I've never seen such a small display before, I'm used to the standard 4"x4".

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    I had completely forgotten about that one which I probably saw advertised at the time in magazines like Practical Electronics.

    Having gone to the trouble of getting Telefunken to design a miniature tube for their miniature TV I think Sinclair wanted to recover development costs by using it in as many products as possible.

    http://rk.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/televisions/tv1a.htm

    I'm not sure if the Telefunken tube was electrostatic deflection (the later flat tubes made by Sinclair themselves definitively were). If it was it would have been ideal for an oscilloscope.

    Some interesting history about Sinclair here

    https://www.americanradiohistory.co...inclair/The-Sinclair-Story-Clive-Sinclair.pdf

    Sinclair was a real visionary dreaming of things like electronic digital watches before LEDs had been invented.
    A shame that his electric "car" made cars like the Trabant seem like a high performance luxury vehicle.
     
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    Super! You are on a roll, mate, as usual, :nodding:with this great
    new batch of ads! Rock on! :thumbsup:
     
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    Thanks for chiming in! I thought it was odd to have such a small display. I'm cruising Sperimentare Magazine, it's eye candy even though I can't read it, they had some really cool builds in it plus they have some really unique ads. There is so much Sinclair Information and ads, I had no idea it was so big in Europe. We just had the little computers (Timex) and I think some of the micro TVs popped up once in a while but the JVCs and Sonys owned that market.
    https://archive.org/details/Sperimentare
     
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