> When you bought a Sinclair calculator you didn't just buy a plastic package with a TI chip inside. You bought the chance to feel a part of a British engineeri

> When you bought a Sinclair calculator you didn't just buy a plastic package with a TI chip inside. You bought the chance to feel a part of a British engineering tradition of cut corners and minimal solutions which nonetheless still sort-of-mostly worked. Americans: You have the 'nerd' and the 'hacker', but we have the 'boffin' and the 'bodger'. I'm probably the latter.