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Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
> The IBM PC was from 1981; before it, the Apple ][, CP/M systems, and 8-bit 
> home computers like the Commodore 64, the Atari 400, and the Radio Shack 
> TRS-80 were popular. The microcomputer era, at least in 
> wealthy North America, started even earlier, around 1977 with the Altair 8800.
>
> There were even earlier microprocessor-based computers, like 
> the 8008-based Mark-8, but they received only very limited attention.

re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#94 Old word processors
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#100 Old word processors

old posts with article with on market share graphs,
75-80, 80-84, 84-87
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#63 The Development of the Vital IBM PC in Spite of the Corporate Culture of IBM
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#76 Why Didn't Digital Catch the Wave?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#5 What if the computers went back to the '70s too?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#68 The Rise and Fall of Commodore

Total share: 30 years of personal computer market share figures
http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/total-share.ars

and has graph of personal computer sales 1975-1980
http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/total-share.ars/3

and graph from 1980 to 1984 ... with the only serious competitor to PC
in number of sales was commodore 64
http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/total-share.ars/4

and then from 1984 to 1987 the ibm pc (and clones) starting to
completely swamp
http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/total-share.ars/5

....

then 87-90
https://arstechnica.com/features/2005/12/total-share/6/
90-94
https://arstechnica.com/features/2005/12/total-share/7/
94-2001
https://arstechnica.com/features/2005/12/total-share/8/
2001-2004
https://arstechnica.com/features/2005/12/total-share/9/

the 75-80 graph
https://arstechnica.com/features/2005/12/total-share/3/

shows trs80 starting 75 and dominates through 1980. 

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