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Re: Sinclair Model That Influenced Apple?
- Subject: Re: Sinclair Model That Influenced Apple?
- From: mick <not.here@invalid.invalid>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 18:28:41 +0000 (UTC)
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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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