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Re: Sinclair Model That Influenced Apple?
- Subject: Re: Sinclair Model That Influenced Apple?
- From: Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:34:01 -0400
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc, comp.sys.sinclair, comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Byte Craft Limited
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mick wrote:
> The Apple 1 was released in 1976. Woz would have been playing with an
> Altair.
The Homebrew computer club at SLAC (part of Stanford University) had a
big influence on many of the early computer developers. Woz was regular
there. These folks displayed prototypes regularly and got a lot of feedback.
There was a critical mass of very bright guys there.
w..