Re: Sinclair Model That Influenced Apple?

[Darrell Stec <darstec@neo.rr.com>]

mick wrote:

> 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.
> 

I think Radio Electronics magazine (or whatever it was known back then) had 
something called The Dazzler.  This links says Byte but I only remember 
something like RE or Computer Electronics carrying the article on how to 
roll your own.

http://www.altair32.com/pdf/Cromemco_Dazzler_Instruction_Manual.pdf

AH and while I hate to use a Wiki as any kind of legitimate source, this 
link sounds about right:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromemco_Dazzler

-- 
Later,
Darrell