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Nigel Searle is the formermanaging director ofSinclair Research Ltd, and one of the company's longest-serving employees. He joinedSinclair Radionics in 1973, and for most of the 1970s, Searle worked for Sinclair in the United States to promote the company's calculators and other products. In 1977, with Sinclair in financial trouble, Searle left the company. He rejoined in 1979 whenSir Clive Sinclair formed Science of Cambridge (later renamed Sinclair Research) and continued to work from the US, successfully promoting theZX80 andZX81 personal computers. In spring 1982, he moved back to the United Kingdom as Sinclair's managing director, a post he retained until 1986 whenAmstrad took over the company's computer business.
Derek Riddell portrayed Searle in the 2009 BBC television movieMicro Men.
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