AHC: Have Sinclair Research be considered a tech giant into the 21st Century

With a PoD no later than the 21st of April, 1982, the launch date of this little thing:

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you must have Sinclair Research survive to be a major tech company like Apple, Phillips or IBM by the turn of the century. What would you suppose be the effects of the resulting timeline?
 
I was going to say something along the lines Spectrum + succeeds and a new model follows, but no. In 1981 the future has already been started in the form of IBM PC and anything Clive does, short of adopting the architecture and making another clone of AT or PC is not going change the outcome.

Commodore and Atari dropped out of race, despite having more viable architectures than sir Clive. Perhaps he could have turned to console market, but that wasn't his vision. He always wanted to make computers for people to learn not to play...
 
Sir Clive has an epiphany and in the follow up to the Spectrum+ removes the built in functions so you programme properly. This version of the Spectrum becomes the basis of the BBC and gets established in UK schools and universities by the late 80s.

However the PC would still conquer UNLESS Sir Clive manages to produce a viable alternative to Windows.
 
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