Tony Firshman wrote on 07 April 2011 16:15:
>
> >>
> >> Tuesday 5 April
> >> Great Lives, 4.30 - 5.00pm, rpt Friday 11.00 - 11.30pm New series. 
> >> Sir Clive Sinclair discusses fellow inventor Thomas Edison 
> with Matthew Parris.
> >
> Did anyone listen?   You have another chance tomorrow.
> 
> They kept raising the C5 - and he still thinks it was not a 
> mistake. I remember David Batty (Sector software) doing 
> wheelies in one round a fountain at a QL show in Bielefeld.

I think he's right - it's not a mistake.... it was just 30 years too soon. A
modern-day C5 would likely be more powerful, faster and have better range.
In fact.... isn't the G-Wiz basically a slightly scaled-up C5? It'd be
interesting to see what a C5 could do with a modern brushless traction
motor, and some LiPo batteries...

> Not a mention of the QL - but he never seems to.

Sadly, he does seem to regard the QL as a mistake. But what a mistake... it
gave me hours, no, years of pleasure - and still does to this day (albeit in
a much smaller scale way).

Cheers,
Ade.


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