Re: Sinclair Model That Influenced Apple?

[Eric Rucker <bhtooefr@gmail.com>]

On Jun 5, 1:49 pm, "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <g...@cable.mendelson.com>
wrote:
> Not necessiarly. I expect that Sir Clive had wanted to build a home computer
> a lot sooner, but was unable to get the parts cheap enough to make the price
> point he wanted to.
>
> Chris Curry may have left because he wanted to do it at a higher price or
> lower profit margin.

If you Micro Men is accurate (it is a dramatization,) Bill actually
got it basically right - Sinclair felt that there wasn't any interest
in personal computers, and wanted to keep all funding towards what
became the Sinclair C5.

Hauser convinced Curry to leave Sinclair and start Acorn.

After that, Sinclair saw the opportunity to make cheap computers, and
the rest was history.