Sir Clive Sinclair has died
Very late to the thread here, but I also got my start on a Timex/Sinclair 1000.  I'm not sure what possessed my dad to buy one.  I think I'm the only one in my family who touched it more than once.  Being able to save programs on a regular cassette tape was awesome!  I'll never forget typing in games from Compute! magazine, and then figuring out how to make them better.  It's amazing what you could do in 2k of ram!I was very disappointed when I came back from college once and decided to fire it up for old times sake, only for it to be dead for some reason.  I still wonder how it went bad, sitting on my desk.