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.