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Article #621416Re: Old word processors
From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 20:44
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 20:44
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On 2018-03-23, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com <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. Those three magic letters are what made it acceptable to the business community. Personally, I found it a big yawn. It wasn't enough to coax me away from my IMSAI, and the Z80B-powered TurboDOS boxes I was working on at the time blew the doors off the original IBM Personal Computer. It wasn't until the Amiga came out that I got excited enough to move to another computer. Too bad Commodore bungled it so badly. Someone once said that if Commodore sold sushi, they would market it as "cold dead fish". -- /~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ HTML will DEFINITELY be ignored. Join the ASCII ribbon campaign!
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