21 Apr
1999
21 Apr
'99
4:47 p.m.
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Jim Strickland wrote:
Heh. No. I got my first PC in 1990. 386s had just come out, but an XT was
still a useful machine because nothing really made use of 32 bit computing
at the time. Its CGA graphics were grossly inferior to the Commodore 64
I sold to get it, and it had no sound at all except a few pathetic beeps.
No, I was referring to your comment of the TRS-80 M1 being the "first
personal computer". We won't argue about the definition of "personal
computer", but for the sake of this discussion, the Apple ][ and Commodore
PET were both introduced in April 1977 at the first West Coast Computer
Faire. The TRS-80 M1 was introduced in August of 1977.
Of course, the Sol-20 predated all three by almost a year.
C64/Amiga/Mac/Apple2/Atari/etc market. The last
survivor was the Radio Shack
Color Computer - sort of appropriate, since they marketed the first personal
computer in the TRS-80 model 1. Note that this also is strictly the US market.
Bahahaha. Ok, come clean: you were really joking, right? At the time software was just starting to be made that
wasn't also immidately
ported to the apple2 and commodore platforms, and the mac software world was
starting to really pick up.
In 1990 almost no new software was being made for the Apple ][.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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