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Old 17th May 2019, 1:26 pm   #20
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Default Re: Sinclair Microvision from the NVCF

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Originally Posted by SiriusHardware View Post
There was some speculation that they were at least partly devised as a way of using up the unused Microvision tubes: The 'blue' appearance of the trace was achieved by putting a blue tinted graticule /filter in front of the plain white screen.
I know Sinclair made some other test equipment, particularly a digital multimeter which used a case from one of their calculators.

IIRC Sir Clive eventually sold off Sinclair Radionics to Binatone, who rebadged some of the unsold Microvision sets with their own name.
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