Retro Tech Tuesday: The Sinclair C5

What's not to love about this week's Retro Tech? It has everything we look for: a retro commerical, retro music/sound effects, and a promise of a cleaner, brighter future that was never to be.

While this ad portrays it as a single-person electric "car", it was really more of a battery-assisted tricyle, hence the claim that you didn't need a license to operate it. While it looks like something out of a sci-fi movie, it looks far less glamourous in this real-world setting. That might be part of the reason it didn't catch on:

Retro Tech Tuesday: Sinclair ZX Spectrum

For this week's Retro Tech we go "across the pond" for a look at was, at the time, "Britain's Best Selling Computer:" The Sinclair ZX Spectrum.

While not quite the same as Apple's 1984 ad, there's something about the mechanical feel of this ad, and the lack of narration, that makes it compelling. Maybe one of our UK viewers can add some color as to what it was like to actually use the ZX Spectrum. In the meantime, you can learn more about Sinclair here.