Re: Sinclair Model That Influenced Apple?

[William <wmmullaney@gmail.com>]

On Jun 4, 5:07 am, "Bill Garber" <willy4...@garberstreet.com> wrote:
> "Brian Gaff" <Bria...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> > What was that mk14 or whatever it was called then?
> > Brian
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> Do you mean this thing?
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> http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=961
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> Bill
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> > "mick" <not.h...@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.
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> >>> 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'.
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> >>> He looked at the price and thought "How f*cking much!", and set to work
> >>> on his volkscomputer, the ZX80.
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> >> The Apple 1 was released in 1976. Woz would have been playing with an
> >> Altair.
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> >> Mick
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Wow 1978 that came along after the apple one and the apple ][