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Joke / Parody news: Sinclair UK Mini Posted on 4-Apr-2012 9:54:42
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Introducing the new Sinclair QL mini
Real image, not photoshopped SinclairUK are proud to announce the immediate availability of the first Sinclair QL computer in about a billion years or something, the QL mini. We did intend to launch yesterday but feared that it may be seen as an april fool joke and not an actual real product so delayed for 24 hours.
The new Sinclair QL mini is the only computer with comparable specs in it's price range, no other computer comes close and no other computer at any price allows you to do so much with an official Sinclair sticker on the front.
The new QL mini is only available in traditional Sinclair kit form as it reduces the cost to the consumer and to save you even more money we have decided that you would be better off sourcing the parts yourself as it means we don't need to pay for a huge warehouse to store everything, therefore passing the savings on to you.
To obtain your new Sinclair QL mini please follow these instructions.
1, Purchase these parts from your favourite vendor. * ZOTAC Z68ITX-B-E * intel core i7 2600K 3.5GHz * 1TB SATA hard drive * 2 x 8GB DDR3 SO-DIMMs * intel mini-PCIe wireless card * wesena HTPC ITX2 case *Sinclair Badge for the front of the case (only available from SinclairUK for just £1000+VAT)
2, Assemble all the parts, training courses should be available in your area if you don't know where to start.
3, Send the receipts for the parts you purchased to SinclairUK so we can verify that your new computer meets the QL standards.
Once all these steps are completed, you have affixed the Sinclair sticker to your case (this is the most important part) and installed Sinclair OS you will now be the proud owner of a brand new Sinclair QL mini, the greatest mini desktop computer with a Sinclair badge available today.
You will receive a Sinclair UK welcome pack containing warranty information (only covers sticker peeling) and a CD-R disc containing a couple of emulators we downloaded.
Why buy a bog standard PC that doesn't say Sinclair on it when you can have a Sinclair QL mini that does. _________________ AF 2012, Hollywood Designer 5, AmigaOS 3.5,4.0 and 4.1 registered user, user of Linux Mint 13 Roots Taking Over The World |
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Re: Joke / Parody news: Sinclair UK Mini Posted on 4-Apr-2012 12:12:01
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Hmmm love it :D _________________ Cross-developer on Windows, OS3, OS4, Linux; Current Projects:- Nephele Cloud App OS4 UserProfile System OS4 AmigaOneXE OS4.1.6
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Re: Joke / Parody news: Sinclair UK Mini Posted on 4-Apr-2012 13:34:31
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Real image not photoshoped looks like this
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Re: Joke / Parody news: Sinclair UK Mini Posted on 4-Apr-2012 14:24:21
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ROFL....
You should do what CUSA do and send that as a press release to all the tech review & news sites... 
After all it seems to be the "business model" that those sites are keen to publish these days, ie: Show some fake pictures of a product that doesn't exist, slap a well know brand name on everything and try and rake in some money from the terminally bewildered from it... 
You're onto a winner there and it seems to be perfectly legit in the techno world these days... 
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Re: Joke / Parody news: Sinclair UK Mini Posted on 4-Apr-2012 20:24:40
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| You're onto a winner there and it seems to be perfectly legit in the techno world these days.. |
Love the website humor, just promote it. Masked Muchacho seems to be the mind behind 
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| You should do what CUSA do and send that as a press release to all the tech review & news sites.. |
Surely, similar buzz could be created but that is not the point 
But what I like is "general insults" section of Sinclair UK website that sais:
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| What the hell is happening with that american company bringing back the breadbin, it was a pile of crap then with blocky graphics and a cpu too slow for basic 3D, I bet the new one is just as bad and no where near as powerful as the new spectrum. The guy who runs it is cleary not getting any to waste so much of his time with that thing. The spectrum sold more than the breadbin in the UK during the 80's so was clearly better so logic dictates that it must be better now and the QL was the first home computer with a pre-emtive multitasking OS so how does he hope to compete with his high end systems based on a clearly inferior platform that came second to the mighty QL back then. He probably can't get it up any more so spends his time dreaming of being as great as Sinclair. |
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Re: Joke / Parody news: Sinclair UK Mini Posted on 5-Apr-2012 11:06:23
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Everyone is invited to participate in SinclairUK team at forum section
http://sinclair-uk.weebly.com/forum.html#/
There are four sections:
News (Community news)
Off-topic (All things off-topic)
General Insults (Forum for the CEO to insult anybody or company he sees fit)
Suggestion Box (Tell us what you would like to see in future Editions of SinclairOS and the Sinclair Computers)
You can login using your existing FB, Tweeter, Gmail, Yahoo, Windows and other accounts ...
Contribute with the humor in taking over the world by Sinclair!
And remember we don`t censor opinions on SinclairUK! _________________ AF 2012, Hollywood Designer 5, AmigaOS 3.5,4.0 and 4.1 registered user, user of Linux Mint 13 Roots Taking Over The World |
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Re: Joke / Parody news: Sinclair UK Mini Posted on 6-Apr-2012 8:15:50
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| ROFL.... You should do what CUSA do and send that as a press release to all the tech review & news sites... |
Don`t forget to spread the word
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| In october 2011 SinclairUK has made a "fanboy call" http://sinclair-uk.weebly.com/forum....e-word-948247/ Fanboys Wanted to spread the word posted Oct 21, 2011 by thedukeofawesome SinclairUK is looking for fanboys to help spread the word about our new computer systems and do their best to troll on other Sinclair enthusiast forums all over the internet. Any interested parties should reply in this thread stating why they are suitable for the position. |
as well as everyone should know of our great SinclairOS Astymatism Beta http://sinclair-uk.weebly.com/sinclair-os.html
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| Remember when computers were frustrating? SinclairOS Pink Eye now available We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of SinclairOS version 1.0 Pink Eye. We have created SinclairOS to be the most configurable and powerful operating system available today for any system, it can be as simple or as complicated as you want it to be, it can do anything you could ever want to do with a computer and many things you have yet to think of. YOU decide how you want it to look, YOU decide what features you need, SinclairOS is the operating system for YOU no matter who YOU are, it's all about YOU the Sinclair User for Your Sinclair and should never Crash. SinclairOS is designed from the ground up to bring back all those memories of typing in listings from books and magazines for your sinclair computer in the best possible way we could think of using today's technology to create the worlds most advanced operating system. Visit http://www.linuxfromscratch.org and follow the instructions to Configure your very own SinclairOS 1.0 Pink Eye for your Sinclair Computer today and if there is something you don't like or think could be improved you can just edit the listings just like you could in the 80s, SinclairOS is amazing. For SinclairOS support please create an online community of fanboys to help with any problems or use answers.yahoo.com as we at sinclairUK really don't know a lot about linux, we are sure that if you use google you may find some useful information. SinclairOS 2.0 Astigmatism beta 49.857 We are pleased to make available to the entire world, Sinclair OS 2.0 Astigmatism (currently and always in beta, it's an excuse for it not working right). Screenshots will be uploaded shortly. Astigmatism is an optical defect in which vision is blurred due to the inability of the optics of the eye to focus a point object into a sharp focused image on the retina. , when downloaded burn the .iso file to a CD and boot, it's easy. the root password is sinclairuk, there is no password for the user account named fanboy. The software is supplied with no warranty and only supported (not really) on official SinclairUK hardware but you are free to try it out on any x86 compatible computer at your own risk. It really is a real bona fide working linux live cd created just for this site and can really be used, no install necessary. Click download and enter your email address to receive a link for the file (close the advert that opens, don't worry, it's safe) Download or download using bittorrent, click the link below, load the .torrent file into your favourite bittorrent client. sinclairos_astigmatism.torrent Download File Introducing Sinclair OS Sinclair OS Beta booting. Sinclair OS is a community driven Linux distribution for Sinclair enthusiasts that is designed to unleash your creative potential as well as enjoy your computing experience to the fullest. Sinclair computers were well known for their text based operating environments, so we seek to do the same, by providing a distinctive, ugly, primitive and frustrating operating system experience. Intended for pre-installation on all future Sinclair hardware, Sinclair OS comes pre-loaded with dozens of the latest and greatest productivity, creativity and education software the open source world has to offer. Featuring dozens of exciting games, the latest web browsing technology, a Microsoft Word compatible Office Suite, advanced graphical manipulation programs, 3D raytracing software, advanced software development tools and languages, photo and movie editing and sound and music composition programs, there is no task too big or too small for our new Sinclair computer to accomplish. Feeling nostalgic? Sinclair OS will provide functionality that will allow it to be classic Sinclair compatible, with integrated features to launch classic 8-bit era software via emulation easily. Games and demos for the Sinclair Spectrum, ZX80, ZX81 and QL can be launched effortlessly. No need to bother with cassette tapes or microdrives, as many games can be legally puchased and downloaded from the internet directly on to your computer. All the computers we sell come with a version of Ubuntu and Canonical can be contacted for software support since we don't know how it works. Our machines are also capable of running Microsoft Windows (sold separately). Windows can be launched either from a multi boot menu at startup (installed by Sinclair OS), or seamlessly integrated within Sinclair OS itself. This flexibility allows you to easily access the strengths of each operating system installed on your new Sinclair machine. To create the authentic sinclair experience, Sinclair OS is based on Ubuntu with the graphical user interface removed and only the text console for input, we have also changed the colour scheme to black on white just like the old machines. Nearly all features mentioned above are what we eventually plan to have available in SinclairOS and may not be available in the currently released versions mainly due to us not knowing what we are doing and possibly not having the rights to use roms for the emulators but it's still SinclairOS so shut up. See below for a video showing a beta version of our new Sinclair Brasso web browser that makes every web site look like it would on an original spectrum (it's not real, we found it on youtube and liked the idea so decided to use it to make us look like we're capable of doing useful things). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvtYC8uKSzI |
Last edited by vox on 06-Apr-2012 at 08:16 AM.
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Re: Joke / Parody news: Sinclair UK Mini Posted on 28-Apr-2012 14:39:03
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Wonder how we could parody the Q&A session ... 
No answers session? Last edited by vox on 28-Apr-2012 at 02:39 PM.
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