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Article #621417Re: Old word processors
From: Charles Richmond
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 05:51
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 05:51
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On 3/23/2018 2:32 PM, 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. > > IMHO your HO is not worth much. Apple sold quite a good number of computers *before* the IBM PC. Radio Shack did so well selling their computers that they were opening Radio Shack Computer stores. In May of 1980, I bought a Radio Shack Color Computer at one of these computer stores. The Color Computer had a Motorola 6809 processor in it. -- numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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