Nicron #104 20 ноября 1998

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Stories - the "suicide" by Sir Clive Sinclair.

          Sir Clive Sinclair
                or
        The Living and the Dead:)

(C) Wlodek Black


          New Russian humor


   ... What happened, or tried to happen? Why this sudden 
anxiety and panic inducing press all the buttons in a row, wipe 
up holes mouse pad and put on ears phlegmatic Mr. and Miss Old 
World? 

   "Is that a new Russian humor?" - So Mr. reacted
Harry Lancaster, a message Mr. Dennis Groening about
that
in Russia
in a Russian newspaper

  in Russian

    with reference to the British "Times"

      published
    Message
      suicide
        Sir Clive Sinclair:

[Start Quote]:

(C) "The Times, London
June 24, 1998


   Ore from the mind


   British branch of the international community "Mensa", 
uniting people with high IQ " (It has globally 100,000 people, 
of which the share of the British branch accounts for 35 
thousand), facing one scandal after another. The last of them 
ended on a days of dismissal of the President 45-year old Julie 
Baxter accused of intrigues and sklochnichestve. Her predecessor

Clive Sinclair has committed suicide after a failed attempt to 
extradite strange invention of his own. Prior to that, several 
union leaders were forced to prematurely leave their posts 
after accusations of fraud, impropriety and abuse of official 
position for personal gain. 

Reprints (R) "24", number 35/199. June 24, 1998

[End quote].



   Yes, damn it, this Julia Baxter ... Dropped by passing a few 
words about another man - man! - Stunned and staggering. And do 
not care whether Sir Clive was trying to give someone else's 
invention or not trying to ... Burned one: Is it no longer 
exists ?!... 


   In Russia, now the sea to their problems, it is well known. 
Death English genius could pass the attention of national media

also understandable. Geniuses are many, and they die from time 
to time ... Even in the UK ... And in Russia, killing them - 
even non-payment poverty wages, closing the research topics and 
entire institutions, turning out the lights and heat have not 
yet closed ... Kill morally vyprovazhivaya of the temples of 
science on the market - selling imported rags. Physically kill 
- those who should have been built prosperous country into the 
world to come - those who are denied the right to be born into 
the light at the end of this century their starving mothers. 
No, in Russia at the end you will not find ... 


   Alarmed at the same time instilled hope one: Is a
June 24 (!) So far no one has ever anywhere in the world, 
Spectrum is not mention of the tragedy, whether it is discord 
... ugh, if she really? But at the same time, the "smoke 
without fire." If you do not find out what really happened (and 
what not occurred), cited above, A brief note is not yet

will soon cease to haunt the souls and minds, from time to time 
getting on the eye ehah, archives, newspapers, etc. 


   Search for "unceremoniously" - [sir] [clive] [sinclair] 
[suicide] - has not given nothing, except for the adventures of 
a literary or kinogeroya-namesake. Spectrum sites around the 
world were filled with routine news, but in the biography of 
Sir Clive on "Planet Sinclair eloquently stated:" 1940 - ",

without a "second" date. Apparently, the alarm was false. But
answer is "probably alive" can not accept spektrumista! It is 
necessary, That it was "just living!". Although it was already 
clear at 99.9%. Could not is a world of six months remain in 
the dark ... 

   At this stage I'm not going to write letters to anyone
was finding it necessary to squeeze everything possible from 
http://www, Alta-Vist-s and so on.


   Persistently desire to still follow the path of "dezy" led 
me first thing in the place of "incidents" - the British branch 
of the "international community of intellectuals." 

          British Mensa


   British Mensa - founder of the international community of 
highly intellectual people, uniting in the global scale of 100 
thousands of people. UK leader in the community, members of 
Mensa in which there are 38 thousand people. 


   What is MENSA?


   The word "Mensa" is Latin - the "table". Mensa - Society
people 'round table where everyone is equal.

   Mensa was founded in 1946 in England by Roland Berrill,
lawyer, and Dr. Lance Ware, a scientist-attorney. Their idea
was to create a society of outstanding personalities, the sole 
criterion for membership in which was supposed to be a high 
index of intellectual ability (IQ). Since its inception to the 
present day of Mensa - the organization out of politics, 
regardless of ethnic and religious relations. Mensa member can 
become a person of any kind occupations, by level of IQ is in 
the highest on this indicator 2 percent of their citizens. IQ 
is determined by a special technique and a numerical 
expression. For example, for the British IQ must be equal to at 
least 148. By the way, including British citizens - members of 
Mensa for 38 thousand 2.5 thousands - of young people under the 
age of 16 years. 

   Sir Clive Sinclair's IQ is 159; is higher than the same
coefficient representative of television, Carol Vorderman, whose
IQ "only" 154. This allowed Sir Clive to become Chairman of 
Mensa. 

   The Company has its own print media - monthly magazine
"Mensa Magazine", an annual re-issued book "Mensa Yearbook"
with a list of its members, as well as local and regional 
publications. Special attention is given to the publication of 
literature for young people. 

   One of the priorities of Mensa is the search for gifted 
children and all assistance in their intellectual development - 
in the direction of their study in prestigious educational 
institutions in the financing of prestigious schools. 

Mensa has a website -
ttp: / / www.mensa.org.uk/mensa/, where, in fact,
These are drawn so interesting information. ;-)


   Sir Clive to leave a lot of "memories" in British
Mensa - and 50-th anniversary of the organization, and to 
celebrate a half-century anniversary of the first electronic 
computer "Mark-1, which achieve the best maker of household 
computers had highlighted. Information about the "death" of the 
hero - of course, no. However, and the reasons for his 
departure from Mensa - too. Julie Baxter on election October 
29, 1997 article was found, but ... nothing interesting (for 
us). 

   Klyunuv an invitation "to any questions, please contact such 
a man, I'm as delicately as possible, and politely asked the 
secretariat to Mensa: say, do not help a Russian citizen 
inquisitive to find out about the departure of Sir Clive as 
Chairman? .. In response to my email address roof caved in 
advertising spam in English, but with an indication of how to 
unsubscribe from it. Response on the merits as there was, and 
is not. So that the secretariat Mensa - Bo olshoy hi ... ;)



          Planet Sinclair "


   Believing that disturb certain people personal letters
still early, I took a trip around the world on sinklerovskim 
and Spectrum sites of the world, they do not benefit so much - 
300. It's really a bit if traveling, sitting on the highway, 
not on some modem to 33600;)). 

   On his return from a voyage:) in front of me lay spisochek 
persons that I was ready to tickle nerves netmeylom ... Oh, how

is it inconvenient, unseemly, and in general! :) Oh well, let's 
start sir. ... With some difficulty giving birth English 
polkilobayta text I sent him to one single location - "Planet 
Sinclair, as the most powerful, like, Spectrum site in the 
world. 

                                          I had a response from
 WORLD'S BIGGEST SINCLAIR WEB ARCHIVE: webmaster and keep
    http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair To this site misto
                                          RA Chris Owen. The 
response has been cited my letter and short phrase that can be 
translated as: "However, alive !!!". But, you see, not only in 
Russian "smoke without fire" and that some began to spin-spin 
itself in a distant Norway on the planet "Sinclair", and the 
next day instead of another spam ;-)) I have learned from their 
mailbox ns.91.ru sincere greetings from the banks already 
"Albion" from a man who does not just "entered" into the 
situation, but it helped so that the whole story of the 
notorious "Suicide" has been possible to put a fat, indelible 
point. 

          Mr. Chris Young


   Here on this
address (URL) can-* Unsatisfactory Software *
but to find a site http://www.unsatisfactory.freeserve.co.uk/
Mr. Chris Yang ------------------------------------------ ha. 
"Unsatisfac-Chris Young - webmaster of the site and holder, 
tory "takes-the project manager Xia as "unsatisfactory-" Your 
Sinclair: A Celebration ", instrumental, "programmer" Amigo "

Therefore, in order not
cause misunderstanding, the owner of the site immediately 
provides an explanation: the name was invented by the most 
advanced method - "spear" in the Dictionary. Especially 
because, according to the author's knowledge of him and his 
friends in the Amiga emulator "Advanced Lawntower Simulator" 
(ALS) At that time (1996) corresponded to the value of the word.


   Now "Unsatisfactory Software" - one of the largest sites,
on the Spectrum: theme dedicated to the Amiga Emulator
Spectrum ALS, and the project YSAC - "Your Sinclair: A 
Celebration". Russian spektrumistam celebrated since 1984 and 
over the next ten years, the journal "Your Sinclair" is also 
quite sign, although it was not published in Russian.


   Letter from Mr. Chris Young was truly overwhelming. I would
gladly published the letter, so everyone can feel
sincere warmth of the words of its author, but the letter still 
private ... In response to my question as Mr Chris reported 
that he sent requests in all conceivable news groups, raised on 
legs (IMHO, put in the ears ;-))) all my friends sinkleristov to

nasobirat all possible information which could only be for
the past six months, unless it was in general. He even tried to 
self poshurovat site "Times" newspaper, but ... found that the 
search engine on the site does not work. Yes, if and worked, 
then use it can only be registered users ... Still, Mr. Chris 
Young worried, I understand I his letter, otherwise he is ready 
to transfer about pohlopotat (!)... 

   In the letter which I sent to Mr. Chris after reading
his messages, I did not ask! I just thank, in
the full measure of his command of English;)!

   The next day I received a letter with a familiar return 
address with the domain "unsatisfactory", with an annex lay 
neatly zazipovannaya:) ill-fated article from August 24 - in 
the original. Well, read the translation and see yourself, you 
can Does the word "withdrawal" translated as "suicide" ... 
Incidentally, the first of my interlocutor - Mr Chris Owen - 
it's a message that in the Mensa at that time there was a case 
of suicide, but only ... Secretary of the President. Perhaps 
this incident has caused the departure of Sir Clive from his 
job - do not know ... 

[Start quote:]

UK News Electronic Telegraph, June 24, 1998


     lava Mensa dismissed from the post of Chairman of the Board


(C) Sally Pook



   The first woman chairman of Mensa was fired after making her 
the unanimous confidence in the Board of Directors of the 
organization. Less than a week before she was to stand up for 
reelection. 

   Julia Baxter, 45, lost his post for alleged
that she knew about the secret campaign, whose objective was 
the removal two directors of Mensa, but did not stop her. As 
mentioned, the removal of directors had to go in her favor, as 
it was side directors who do not agree with the existing methods

management company. Mrs. Baxter, who has replaced Sir Clive 
Sinclair as President of the company last October, initially 
refused to external investigation and was removed from his post 
on Sunday, but remained a member of the Board. 

   This episode, the most recent in a long line of 
confrontations, to the division of the company, discovered a 
deep political conflict in the higher strata of society highly 
intellectual men whom Britain has more than 35,000. Mrs.

Baxter, asserting that he knew nothing about this campaign,
said yesterday: "I am discouraged. I tried to work with people
of the Board of Directors of Mensa. I was exhausted, trying to 
force the company to work better as a society. It seems to me 
that they no longer glad to see an organization steeped in 
useless, vicious political struggle and the endless waste of 
money than see it adhere to the rules and generally accepted 
standards of decency. " 

   The episode is based on unsubstantiated allegations that 
officials Mensa formed in an attempt to remove two directors 
for association staff after the departure of [the departure] 
Sir Clive. Argue that the information was transferred to the 
Tribune, a journal on External Affairs Mensa, which published 
an article with the assumption that both the director, Steve 
Sutton and Neil Golder, were not form, to consist of the Board 
and not re-elected. Article was of great importance, since it 
was released a few weeks before the August election in Mensa 
last year. One of the members of Mensa, who declined to give 
his name, stated that article was illegally distributed more 
than 2 thousand members Mensa its former chairman, at a cost of 
£ 300 for through the organization. He said: "They did 
everything they could to not to give Mr Sutton and Mr Golder be 
re-elected after a campaign of disinformation. Julia Baxter 
knew that senior members of management were plotted against 
those two directors, but said this committee. "And the lord

Sutton and Mr. Golder had been re-elected, though were later 
forced to resign. In the end, the plot Chairman was exposed, he 
was dismissed, but it did not happen before they learned about 
the involvement of Mrs. Baxter to the plot. She said: "He told 
me in Mensa, I knew about it, forgive it and was the driving 
force behind this. This is a complete lie and baseless 
arguments. In truth, I was not particularly happy with the way 
Mr. Sutton and Mr. Golder behaved the last two years. But I do 
not want these two men left the board. In There was not any 
personal benefit for me. "Mrs. Baxter stated that it was 
removed from his post as leader because insisted that the 
government has adopted a legal ruling before you begin an 
external investigation. She said: "For Recently, against me 
were made false and unsubstantiated allegations. The Board has 
demonstrated blatant incompetence in their investigation of the 
facts that surround one issue on which I own, and drew 
attention many months ago. 

Links to other articles:

August 21, 1996: "Yes, IQ is there, but only where this
chain position itself Mensa? "
July 12, 1996: "Hairy men, usually in the majority
his intellectual "
June 28, 1996: "unknown factor is the key to erudition"
December 19, 1995: "The head of Mensa was enriched by a 
mysterious scheme for the intellect." 

(C) Telegraph Group Limited, 1998.
"Electronic Telegraph" and "The Daily Telegraph" are registered 
trademarks of Telegraph Group Limited. 

[End quote].



   ... And who said that the article was in the Times? 
(Although, perhaps, there also was an article, but nobody found 
it:)). 

   In-general, Sir Clive is alive and, despite the departure 
from the club of intellectuals, continues to work with full 
force of his extraordinary mind. His current project - 
"Computer for Millenium". 


   How to thank Mr. Chris Yang? Between us thousands
kilometers ... sorry, miles:), and that I could give a 
prosperous, probably gentleman, a resident of a stable and calm 
the UK? Do not think of anything better, I said to Mr Chris I 
would write about it in Nicron-e:). Fortunately, Mr Chris 
modesty did not:), I knew right away:) when I saw the following 
letter from him, with photographs, pinned to the envelope 
brilliant clip:) with an exclamation point :-)). Well, actually 
I asked him to share his portraits;).


   I must say that during those days while I "dig" into this 
damn story with "suicide", I came across a lot of pictures of 
Sir Clive Sinclair, as has been seen previously, and less well 
known, and the image of handsome middle-aged man in glasses and 
a beard, had become in my mind in a certain stereotype is not 
obtrusive, but not ephemeral. And so with that same stereotype 
in your head I mean, I press Enter on the jpeg-e Mr Chris Young 
... 



                Chris Young


   ... Painting by Ilya Repin, "Unexpected"! ;-)) ...
Or in translation ;-)) in English: "Hello, Chris!!!" :))).
In-general, here's to you man, which by the time the last 
letter, I knew just what he - very good people, because only a 
good man is capable of ac warmly respond to someone else 
(actually, quite strange!) request to help and do so much of 
what he was not even asked (in the best sense!)! 

   About Chris said (and asked to be mentioned in the 
newspaper) about the following: "Do not think that I am already 
an avid pianist (on photograph depicts a man playing the piano, 
here it is seen worse;) - approx. WB) ... I am 19 years old, 
but I know that do not look at so ... I now look differently at 
all, since a couple of weeks back haircut:) ...".


   Now we know!

              Who else


   I consider it my duty to thank everyone who was involved in 
the "Process"!


   Thank you

Chris Young - again:)! ;
Chris Owen, Harry Lancaster and Dennis Groening - for help in
information retrieval;
student 10 "B" class 91-th school Dmitry Pankov, the sister of 
one of the participants ZXNet Inessa Kushnikovoy, an employee 
of administration of the Institute of Languages ​​and Culture. 
H. L. Tolstoy - for help in translating texts into English; 


   and also:

Secretariat Mensa - a lot of interesting advertising. ;)


        Laughing Skull


   From one of TV "Brain Ring" I happened by chance
learn about the existence in the United States of a "club 
buried alive", which includes people whose death was reported 
during their lifetime. The emblem of this club is a laughing 
skull. Well, a smile goes to everyone:)! And, they say, 
prolongs life. What and only wish, Sir Clive Sinclair is no 
joke. 


      Leafing through old calendar ...



   Clive Marles Sinclair was born on July 30, 1940. In 1958,
graduated from high school. In 1961 he founded his first 
venture - Sinclair Radionics, where the following year was 
created mikrousilitel the size of a small coin. Then Clive 
Sinclair became a member of Mensa. 



        Young Clive Sinclair

   From 1972 to 1977 - the development of different 
calculators. In In 1979 founded the company Sinclair Research. 
Since 1980, opened the era of home computers, starting with the 
ZX80, then the ZX81, a 1982 appeared the 16-Kbyte Spectrum, 
soon brought to the 48K. In 1983 Spectrum sold for 12 thousand 
a week. The merits of the inventor were assessed at the highest 
level, and since long before the name of Clive Sinclair 
appeared prefix "Sir". 128-Kbyte Spectrum in 1986, completed 
the line of a Spectrum rights to manufacture computers for 
Sinclair Research acquired firm Amstrad. But computers actually 
have not been forgotten: 



        Sir Clive PC Z88


   End: instead of pictures - a picture:



    "Suicide by Sir Clive Sinclair. Caricature.
    Has no relation to the "events".

And this is - the promised point:

This article draws from sites "Planet Sinclair and
"Unsatisfactory Software".

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