26 Nov
2019
26 Nov
'19
6:43 p.m.
On 11/26/2019 7:09 PM, TeoZ via cctalk wrote:
The only reason Apple sold so many Apple II's was because some software
designer came out with Visicalc. So many machines were sold that they
ended up cheap enough and useful enough to end up in schools and homes
where before they were only sold to corporations. IBM's release of the
PC with open architecture and all the people who cloned it and made
software and hardware for it that IBM never envisioned is the reason
X86/X64 is so dominant not that is was the first or the best.
But the stange thing now, all the 8 bitters are making a come back
like the z80 with CP/M (USA) and the 6502 with BBC Micro (UK).
What ever happened to all the wierd early transitor computers that were
like 48+ bits and 4K of core memory hit the surplus market in the mid
1970's?