Sinclair Spectrum failed because 'it was too woke'

On the 44th anniversary of the launch of the Sinclair Spectrum, aging gamers have been lamenting the loss of the iconic micro-computer online.

'If it was still supported it would run Twitter no problem, only nicer,' said one Spectrum fan.  Another noted that 'it would have been a natural at emails, YouTube and PowerPoint, although saving to cassette might be a bit of a bind in this day and age.

Apparently it failed not because of technological issues - ram pack wobble is now an IT department euphemism - but because of Sir Clive's insistence of laying a rainbow across the lower right hand corner.  'Bloody woke, innit,' said an aging expert.  'Probably targeted at LGBTQ+ gamers,' he added.  'When Reform get in, the first objective will be to finally remove every Spectrum off the face of the planet,' he growled.

A more enlightened follower of the micro-computer noted that the storage capacity of the Spectrum - 48kb, compared to modern laptops of around 2Gb - actually maps closely to the computing power of most Reform voters compared to practically everybody else.  'And not only are they under-powered in the data storage department but their ram packs really don't need to much of a wobble to make them fall over,' he noted.

‘Short Man’ energy to be harnessed by National Grid

Scientists at the University of Padgate claim to have discovered a new energy source.

‘Short men fizz with this dark, somewhat chaotic energy’, said Dr Mathison. ‘Using supercooled niobium we have been able to build a superconducting, supermagnetic torus which traps the energy given off by men below average height. The hardest part is luring them within the forcefield. We use pies for that.’

Jo, 58, is married to one of the original test subjects. ‘That first time in the Torus was a revelation’, she told NewsBiscuit. ‘Jim came out very chill. The scientists experimented on him pretty cruelly – they hid his beer, introduced a bluebottle into the room and switched the dishwasher around so the big plates were where the small ones should be, that sort of thing. He didn’t explode once. Plus the energy generated was enough to run the tumble dryer. It wasn’t a good drying day’.

Dr Mathison designed the so-called Temper Torus to avoid having to do his share of marking, though it turns out to actually be useful. His claims have been challenged by other scientists – Professor Pauline at the University of Chicago has Patent Pending on the Perimenopause Torus, an almost identical design which uses gin instead of pies, and Pixar have hinted that this whole article is just a rip-off of the plot of Monsters, Inc.

We asked Dr Mathison for comment. ‘Well, as long as it gets me out of marking . . . you’re not recording this, are you? Oh. I’m more concerned about opposition to alternative energy sources from the far-right, given that they’re funded by fossil fuel companies. It’s ironic – I took a meter down to the last Tommy Robinson march and the Short Man energy was off the scale – that march could have powered Britain for a decade’.

So there you have it. Scientists might finally have found a use for Tommy Robinson.

Image: Camera-man - Pixabay

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