Re: Sinclair Model That Influenced Apple?

[William <wmmullaney@gmail.com>]

On Jun 3, 2:28 pm, mick <not.h...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:08:06 +0100, Jon wrote:
> > 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.
>
> --
> Mick
>
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Woz actually started playing with minicomputer designs, which led to
the eventual design of the cream soda computer, a small mini computer
he built with high school friends. Seeing the altair 8800, he felt he
had already passed over from lights and switches. He didn't buy an
altair, but decided to integrate a cpu into his previously designed
video terminal. Steve Jobs didn't help design any of the early apple
computers.