Dead Celebrities Thread

[jamesbrown]

Damn. Michael K. Williams:

https://nypost.com/2021/09/06/actor-...nyc-apartment/

[NickFitz]

Damn. Michael K. Williams:

https://nypost.com/2021/09/06/actor-...nyc-apartment/

[jamesbrown]

Indeed. Omar was one of the most memorable characters in TV history, IMHO.

But the game is out there, and it’s either play or get played

[vetran]

Tony Selby

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_S...g%20COVID%2D19.

Anthony Samuel Selby (26 February 1938 – 5 September 2021) was an English actor. He was best known for his roles as Clive Mitchell in EastEnders, Corporal Percy Marsh in Get Some In!, and Sabalom Glitz in Doctor Who.

[Dark Black]

Tony Selby

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_S...g%20COVID%2D19.

Sadly missed, fond memories of watching Get Some In as kid...

[vetran]

love this song always makes me smile , I have danced with all my girls in the kitchen to this song.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-aged-69.html

[ladymuck]

https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...r-dies-aged-81

Sir Clive Sinclair, the inventor and entrepreneur who was instrumental in bringing home computers to the masses, has died at the age of 81. His daughter, Belinda, said he died at home in London on Thursday morning after a long illness.

[vetran]

https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...r-dies-aged-81

Sir Clive Sinclair, the inventor and entrepreneur who was instrumental in bringing home computers to the masses, has died at the age of 81. His daughter, Belinda, said he died at home in London on Thursday morning after a long illness.

Cheers Sir Clive you started my love of computers, the ZX81, spectrum & QL were fantastic and cheap!

Before anyone asks 100,000 ZX80 , 1.5 million ZX81 and 5 million spectrums were massive volumes.

BBC micro was 1.5 million competing with the Spectrum.

[mattster]

Cheers Sir Clive you started my love of computers, the ZX81, spectrum & QL were fantastic and cheap!

Yes indeed - hat tip to Sir Clive. A huge influence in my life, ever since my Dad brought back a ZX81 when I must have been about 8. I had an awful lot of fun on that, and later the Spectrum. Never did get a QL - Atari ST for me then, what a leap that was.

[NickFitz]

https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...r-dies-aged-81

Sir Clive Sinclair, the inventor and entrepreneur who was instrumental in bringing home computers to the masses, has died at the age of 81. His daughter, Belinda, said he died at home in London on Thursday morning after a long illness.

RIP Sir Clive

Although I was more of an Acorn user by the 1980s, my first calculator was a Sinclair Cambridge and the first programmable device I owned was the Sinclair Cambridge Programmable, a neat little thing with 4-bit machine code

I saw him in the flesh once at the PCW show at Earl's Court, which we used to go to every year when I was a games programmer. We wandered past him as we were making our rounds of the various publishers we worked with, as he stood conversing with someone among the stands. For some reason I've always remembered vividly how his head glistened with the reflection of the hall's bright lights from above