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Re: Sinclair Model That Influenced Apple?
"Brian Gaff" <Briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message news:huaalh$3fj$1@news.eternal-september.org...
What was that mk14 or whatever it was called then? Brian
Do you mean this thing? http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=961 Bill 


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"mick" <not.here@invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:hu8s8o$2fn9$1@adenine.netfront.net... 
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.

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Mick
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