Re: Old word processors

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From: J. Clarke
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 00:34

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On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 12:32:38 -0700 (PDT), hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:

>On Monday, March 19, 2018 at 1:43:54 AM UTC-4, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
>
>> >Also the "personal computer" boom started in the 80s.
>> 
>>      Mid '70s.
>> 
>>      IBM joined in after the market had been established.
>
>
>IMHO, the personal computer market was a niche specialty field
>with _relatively_ few units sold until the IBM PC hit the streets
>_and_ was accepted by the business community.

For certain values of "relatively few".  DEC sold a total of about
600,000 PDP 11s during the entire history of the product.  The
personal computer industry sold 1.5 million units in 1981 alone.  That
was just _before_ the IBM PC hit.
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