21 Apr
2007
21 Apr
'07
10:10 p.m.
On 21/04/07, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
[...]
functioning in this capacity as well as various x80
systems, I've
never seen a business using a C64 or C128 to do their office "bread
and butter" work. Games and educational software simply don't hold
much of a place in my universe (I have a fair collection of them from
the old SIMCGA days; but they never interested me).
So, in my world, by 1985, people were leaving the 8-bitters behind in
droves and there were plenty of people to encourage them.
Actually, somewhere about 1985 I made my first money programming:
fixing the business app my dad's boss was running on a C64 (can't
remember what it did; database, I guess). This was in germany and I
was 11. I saw plenty of C64's and C128s in business settings until I
left europe in 88. In Canada (and I guess the same was true for the
US) it was a wholly different thing, and by that time, PCs had taken
over.
Joe.