Zing Tsjeng

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5,630 appearances 21 recordings 9 series first heard May 2026 last heard 3d ago

Zing Tsjeng’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 21 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 11.

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Good Bad Billionaire · Lord Sugar: From entrepreneur to Apprentice · 14 Sep 2026 podcast

Did you have a home computer at this time? voice-verified

Well, there was two machines I had. voice-verified

One was called the Sinclair ZX81. voice-verified

which was one of the early machines. voice-verified

And then there was something called the Sinclair Spectrum. voice-verified

And then there were various iterations on this. voice-verified

There was the VIC-20, the Commodore 64. voice-verified

And as a young 12-year-old boy, everyone was obsessed with them. voice-verified

You would get these brochures and look at them and lust after these computers, even if you didn't know how to use them. voice-verified

Yeah, his next product was the Amstrad PCW, essentially a glorified word processor that included a screen, a keyboard and a printer. voice-verified

And it was advertised as the replacement for the typewriter and was wildly popular. voice-verified

The uncool thing about them was that if you ever made a mistake on a typewriter because you're physically, bam, you know, hitting the key onto the page... voice-verified

you would have to go back and put a little strip of something to try and erase it. voice-verified

Whereas a word processor, essentially, as we know, means that you didn't have to print it until it was all done. voice-verified

So you could make your changes along the way before you actually printed it out. voice-verified

million. voice-verified

Makers of the spectrum then. voice-verified

And then 1986, a big moment, because they made an IBM-compatible computer, meaning that it was designed to run the same software, use the same hardware architecture as the IBM PC, which was becoming and had become the industry standard for business computing. voice-verified

The campaign slogan was, and this is pure Alan Sugar, compatible with you-know-who, priced as only we-know-how. voice-verified

So, you know, this is computing for the masses. voice-verified

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