Re: Sinclair Model That Influenced Apple?

["Brian Gaff" <Briang1@blueyonder.co.uk>]

What was that mk14 or whatever it was called then?
Brian

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"mick" <not.here@invalid.invalid> wrote in message 
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> On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:08:06 +0100, Jon wrote:
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>> On 23/05/2010 3:42am, Skylamar Jones wrote:
>>> Hi. I'm trying to find the name of a computer that influenced Steve
>>> Jobs and Steve Wozniak before they built their first Apple. The
>>> computer didn't use a screen, it only had lights and switches and came
>>> as a kit. I remember seeing it in a documentary but I don't remember
>>> which movie. I thought the computer was a Sinclair computer but I
>>> couldn't find a computer like it in the Sinclair entry in Wikipedia so
>>> I may be wrong. Any idea which computer it is? Thanks.
>>
>> It was the other way around, Sinclair got his inspiration from an advert
>> for the Apple II+ in an 1979 edition of the now sadly defunct 'Personal
>> Computer World'.
>>
>> He looked at the price and thought "How f*cking much!", and set to work
>> on his volkscomputer, the ZX80.
>
>
> The Apple 1 was released in 1976. Woz would have been playing with an
> Altair.
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> Mick
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