Re: Sinclair Model That Influenced Apple?

[Geoff Wearmouth <gwearmouth@gmail.com>]

On 3 June, 23:05, Eric Rucker <bhtoo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The only mention of Apple in there is that Apple's computers cost too
> much.
Sinclair's first computer was the MK14 - no screen just lights,
switches and a keyboard. The ZX80 followed in 1980.

"One of the features of the ZX80 was that it could be programmed using
a version of the Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code - the
BASIC computer language, involving the use of instructions that are
very similar to their English-language equivalents. Its popularity
among US hobbyists in the late 1970s made it a natural choice for
Sinclair and the development of microcomputers in the US was a major
influence on the creation of the Sinclair line. Norman Hewett, the
Sinclair Radionics MD, confirms that Sir Clive had his eye on the
American computer markets as early as 1977:

[Clive] and I were both in Las Vegas in 1977 at the Electronics Fair.
Apple was there, I think for the first or second time, and of course
he spent most of his time going round looking at Apple and the other
computer firms, with a view to doing the same thing himself.

(Interview, 16 October 1985.)"

http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/computers/zx81/zx81_sst.htm

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