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Article #625353Re: Microsoft's PDP-10s
From: Michael Black
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2018 01:43
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2018 01:43
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On Mon, 6 Aug 2018, Andreas Kohlbach wrote: > On Sun, 5 Aug 2018 16:44:48 -0400, Michael Black wrote: >> >> We didn't get "computer shows" locally until the early nineties, but >> the places selling the shareware disks was some of the best reason to >> go to them. > > Where did you live, UK as you note later? You had "The Computer Programme > as early as January 1982 on telly. I as German felt already unlucky that > computer related shows only showed up in the mid 1980s and I missed all the > craze about early home computers from the late 70s and early 80s there. No, I'm in Montreal, Canada. And these were commercial affairs, set up at the convention center with lots of companies having booths, either showing things off or sellnig things outright. They had them in the US almost as soon as home computers arrived, but locally it happened much later. So when the computer shows started here, some of the more interesting booths were coming in from the US. SO one regular seemed to buy up end of line stock, and sell it, so cheap mouse pads if you could live with some odd company's logo on it, and generic floppy discs at good prices. That sort of thing made the show worth the admission price, if it had just been local stores, we could just visit them directly. Michael
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