14 Sep
1998
14 Sep
'98
2:41 a.m.
On 14 Sep 98, at 6:03, Doug Yowza wrote:
Most of the people buying Apples weren't
hobbyists who read BYTE, they were yuppies who bumped into an Apple store.
I didn't think we had yuppies in 1977. That is how I found the Apple
myself though. I was going to buy a TRS-80 and just happened to
run across a store selling Apples. It was the color graphics, slots
and the fact the higher capacity disks that sold me over the TRS-
80. At the time I hadn't heard of Compucolors. Though I did see
the Compucolor II later on and wanted one. Thus I guess you
could say it was marketing that helped make the Apple the hit it
was. I don't think the Compucolor 8001 was ever marketed
towards the home user.
The only other machine that was comparable at the time
was the TRS-80
available at Radio Shack (I remember it being a failrly rare event to see
a PET at a computer store, compared to those two). Color bitmapped
I always saw PETs in department stores. Don't recall ever seeing
one in a computer store.
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