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Article #621420Re: Old word processors
From: J. Clarke
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 21:26
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 21:26
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On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 13:31:43 -0700 (PDT), hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote: >On Saturday, March 24, 2018 at 1:51:12 AM UTC-4, Charles Richmond 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. > >I still maintain that before the IBM PC, personal computers were >still a specialty niche market. Yes, there were Radio Shack >and Apple computers out there. But in _relative_ terms, the >number of users was still very small. ALL computers were a specialty niche market at the time. Mainframe, mini, micro, embedded, most people never knowingly interacted with one.
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