22 Jan
1999
22 Jan
'99
4:10 a.m.
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Max Eskin wrote:
I think that there is a slight difference. The PET or
whatever is
distinctive. If you sat down behind a startup screen of a PET, you could
tell it's a PET (or at least a CBM machine). If you sat behind a startup
screen of a PC, you could at most tell the company that made it, if you
didn't miss the POST readout.
Let us not forget the *amazing* diversity of form in the PC market in the
last 10 years! I have laptops, pen-based machines, hermetically sealed
touchscreen boxes, handhelds, luggables, even credit card PCs that are
distinctly classics and generally less than even 10 years olds.
-- Doug