Physically, the QL was the same black colour as the preceding ZX81 and Sinclair ZX Spectrum models, but introduced a new angular styling theme and keyboard design which would later be seen in the ZX Spectrum +.

These problems were later rectified, by Sinclair engineers, especially on Samsung produced models, as well as by aftermarket firms such as Adman Services and TF Services — to the point where several QL users report their Microdrives working perfectly even after almost 17 years of service ( for Samsung QLs ) — but in any case much too late to redeem the negative image they had already created.

His frustration with the Sinclair would also lead to his purchasing a more standard PC in later years on which he would develop what would become the Linux operating system.

Again, it was later determined that Sinclair made concurrent cash payments personally to Fall, exceeding $ 400, 000.

The Sinclair ZX80 is a home computer brought to market in 1980 by Science of Cambridge Ltd. ( later to be better known as Sinclair Research ).

The same slot bus was continued on the ZX81, and later the ZX Spectrum, which encouraged a small cottage industry of expansion devices, including memory ( Sinclair produced RAM expansion packs for the ZX80: the original ZX80 RAM Pack held either 1, 2 or 3 KB of static RAM ; a later model held 16 KB, using dynamic RAM chips ( DRAM )), printers, and even floppy drives.

However, some of the Timex innovations were later adopted by Sinclair Research.

These were later used in a revised version on the Sinclair QL, whose storage format was electrically compatible but logically incompatible with the Spectrum's.

The reader would type the Sinclair BASIC program listing into the computer by hand, run it, and could save it to tape for later use.

When the James Sinclair expedition of almost 200 men women and children reached Fort Vancouver later that year, McLoughlin took his time settling them on Hudson's Bay farms and encouraged them to settle south of the Columbia River.

* The first Sinclair Elementary School was later torn down and is now a site for hotels.

The show ran for nearly forty years and featured a remarkably stable cast of panelists, including journalist-historian Pierre Berton, Betty Kennedy ( who later become a Canadian senator ), Toby Robins ( who later became a movie actress ) and radio commentator Gordon Sinclair.

Four months later, Sinclair was given possession of Mustang, but not the deed.

* George Robertson Sinclair 1879 – 1880 ( later organist at Truro Cathedral and Hereford Cathedral )

) Gillette's last book, The People's Corporation ( 1924 ), was written with Upton Sinclair and later inspired Glen H. Taylor.

Clive Sinclair later used the same approach in his legendary Sinclair ZX80.

He is in the Coffeyville Red Ravens Men's Basketball Hall of Fame. He also played basketball at Sinclair Community College from 1979 to 1980 in Dayton, OH before he moved back to Columbus to focus on boxing.

At the 1950 general election Sinclair again stood for his old seat and moved to second place, but in yet another close election, he was 269 votes away from victory.

In March 1779 it moved to Perth where, following a dispute over their pay and bounty payment, soldiers from the regiment took part in the Burntisland mutiny of March 1779, whilst under the command of Major John Sinclair, 11th Earl of Caithness ( Lord Berridale ), after which it was transferred to Jersey in the Channel Islands and embarked for New York in August 1779.

Commenting upon the Convention Bill recently passed in Ireland as a means of suppressing public assemblies, Sinclair moved that a secret committee of four, together with the Secretary, be invested with the power to fix the meeting of a Convention of Emergency.

In 1972, WNCI moved to the sixth floor of the new Scot's Inn, later the Carousel Inn, at 4900 Sinclair Road.

Sinclair was already managing WRGT-TV, owned by Sullivan, and Sinclair moved WRGT-TV's operations into WKEF's studios.

As a part of this transition, they moved from 1080i output ( which their network programming originates in ) to 720p, to keep with the rest of the Sinclair Broadcast Group family's HD formatting ( as most of the group's " Big Four " network affiliates are affiliated with either Fox or ABC, both of which broadcast in 720p ).

On March 1, 1998, Sinclair moved The WB affiliation to KUPN ( soon to be renamed KVWB, now KVMY ) and KFBT returned to being independent.

Most of WZTV's sitcoms and cartoons moved to WUXP with Sinclair buying that station outright in 2001.

He practiced law until he moved to Los Angeles in 1980 and married Patricia Sinclair.

Fox Kids therefore moved to an independent station WTTA ( Channel 38 ) owned by Sinclair which also picked up other syndicated shows that WFTS could no longer air.

In 1780, during the American Revolution, British commandant Patrick Sinclair moved the British trading and military post to Mackinac Island, and Fort Michilimackinac was abandoned.

In 1993 Sinclair moved to Queens Park Rangers for £ 600, 000, a figure which broke Blackpool's record transfer sale.

In January 1998 Sinclair moved to West Ham United for a combined fee of £ 2. 7 million ; £ 2. 3 million plus West Ham players Iain Dowie and Keith Rowland moving to Q. P. R as part of the deal.

Davies later moved to the United States and played the role of Laura Sinclair in the lavish but short-lived night-time soap opera Pacific Palisades.

After WCVE-FM moved to a permanent home at 88. 9, the 101. 1 frequency remained dark until 1996 when it was obtained by Sinclair Telecable, owners of urban stations WCDX and WPLZ who signed on a Jazz station, WSMJ.

In 1998, Sinclair Telecable sold the 101. 1 frequency to Hoffman, who moved the WDYL callsigns and format to 101. 1 and traded the 105. 7 frequency to Sinclair.

Sinclair merged staff from NID25 and MI1b into the new organisation, which initially consisted of around 25 – 30 officers and a similar number of clerical staff.

After Amstrad bought the computer business of Sinclair Research, Sir Clive retained the rights to the Pandora project, and it evolved into the Cambridge Computer Z88, launched in 1987.

In 1841 James Sinclair, on orders from Sir George Simpson, guided nearly 200 settlers from the Red River Colony ( located at the junction of the Assiniboine River and Red River near present Winnipeg, Canada ) into the Oregon territory.

In 1982 Sinclair converted the Barker & Wadsworth mineral water bottling factory into the company's headquarters.

Sinclair Vehicles was put into receivership on 12 October 1985.

The oldest regular, Gordon Sinclair, continued travelling with his fellow panelists to videotaping locations until he was well into his 80s.

Sinclair Broadcast Group owned both the Fox and WB affiliates in the DMA prior to the September 2006 merger of UPN and WB into a newly created CW Network and was forced by Fox to convert its WB affiliate ( WDKA ) into a MyNetworkTV affiliate ( MY49 ).

The primary evidence for this tale is a burial marker in the form of a sword chiseled into a granite slab near the center of town, ( known by residents and historians as the Westford Knight ), which some claim is the gravestone of Sir James Gunn of Scotland, who traveled with Sinclair.

Then John Sinclair quit deciding to join Ozzy Osbourne and keyboardist Phil Lanzon ( Grand Prix, Sad Café ) came in to fit in immediately into the Box-envisaged scheme of things.

The popularity of Sinclair drew the term into greater public use in the United Kingdom.

In 1978, Terrell Braly, along with a group of investors, converted a closed Sinclair gas station located at 1275 Grant Street in Denver, Colorado, into a sandwich shop called " Sandwich World ".

Standing for End Poverty in California, EPIC was an effort for well-known muckraking writer and former Socialist Upton Sinclair to implement socialist reforms through California's Democratic Party during the Great Depression by recruiting supporters into the party and then securing that party's nomination for the 1934 California gubernatorial election.

The Sinclair expedition crossed the Rockies into the Columbia Valley, near present-day Radium Hot Springs, British Columbia, then traveled south-west down the Kootenai River and Columbia River following the southern portion of the well established York Factory Express trade route.

At the insistence of Marvel editors, Ellis also added Wolfsbane ( Rahne Sinclair ), a Scottish werewolf-like young woman from the New Mutants, and Colossus ( Peter Rasputin ), a Russian X-Man who could turn his flesh into " organic steel.

A smaller part of the former coke bunker-for carbon production-for the aluminium reduction works, was transformed in 2002 into Atlas Brewery which, together with Orkney Brewery, was taken over in 2006 to form Sinclair Brewery Ltd. Atlas was closed in July 2010 and its production transferred to Orkney.

* Malcolm Ian Sinclair, 20th Earl of Caithness ( b. 1948 ) ( elected into House of Lords, 1999 )

Image: Kootenay NP Entry. JPG | BC Highway 93 leading into the park through Sinclair Canyon

During September 1919, Harry F. Sinclair restructured Sinclair Oil and Refining Corporation, Sinclair Gulf Corporation, and 26 other related entities into Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation.