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Re: Sinclair Model That Influenced Apple?
"William" <wmmullaney@gmail.com> wrote in message beaee99b-c390-4622-8644-8017d4229ba6@t10g2000yqg.googlegroups.com">news:beaee99b-c390-4622-8644-8017d4229ba6@t10g2000yqg.googlegroups.com...
On Jun 4, 5:07 am, "Bill Garber" <willy4...@garberstreet.com> wrote:
"Brian Gaff" <Bria...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> 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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>> 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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Wow 1978 that came along after the apple one and the apple ][
It does not say that, it says this:
" Chris Curry, who believed much more than Clive Sinclair in the future of
such computers, left the company in 1978, founded Acorn Computers with
Herman Hauser and built its fist computer kit, the System 1. A few months
later, Clive Sinclair decided that computers were a good way to raise money
and started a new project: a complete computer for less than �100. "
Broken down: Chris Curry left the company in 1978 and founded Acorn Computers
with Herman Hauser and built the SYSTEM 1. That led Clive Sinclair to decide
that computers could make money, and caused him to start his own project.
Am I wrong? From other sources, the MK14 was actually created in 1976, at
the same time as the Apple One. Still no big deal by comparison, though.
Bill