Rick Dickinson, the designer of Sinclair computers, has died in the US while receiving treatment for cancer.
The British designer, thought to be in his 60s, worked in-house for Sinclair Research and oversaw the creation of its home computers in the 1980s.
He was responsible for the boxy look of the ZX80 and ZX81 and the Bauhaus-inspired appearance of the Spectrum.
Mr Dickinson also helped to develop the technologies for the UK company’s touch-sensitive and rubber keyboards.
He was recently linked to a crowd-funded project by Retro Computers to turn the Spectrum into a handheld computer. Some of the early reference designs for the machine were drawn up by him.
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