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Article #621432Re: Old word processors
From: Andreas Kohlbach
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 21:31
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 21:31
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On Mon, 26 Mar 2018 01:16:35 -0500, Dave Garland wrote: > > On 3/25/2018 4:50 PM, Andreas Kohlbach wrote: > >> What is with the Osborne and the office software coming along with it? >> Since WordStar and other could run on any Z80 (8080) I assume that at >> least small businesses used it a lot. >> > If you're asking why buy a computer with bundled software instead of > just buying the software for the computer you already had, mostly the > buyer didn't have a computer already. At least not one available to > the buyer. (At my PPOE, accounting had just bought a mini, but that > was only for accounting and nobody else touched it, including the > boss.) You could buy an Apple 2 or TRS-80 before the Osborne. They didn't come with much software other than the OS and may be a game or two. But no business software. > Osborne's marketing gimmick was, "everything you need except a printer > is in the box, you don't need to know anything about computers". Not sure about "you don't need to know anything about computers". That was probably more what the Coleco Adam and the Amstrad PCW advertised. [...] -- Andreas My random toughts and comments https://news-commentaries.blogspot.com/
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