29 Dec
1998
29 Dec
'98
10:47 a.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
Yup. Unimpressed me. Cost a bloody fortune and wasn't as good as a
Radio Shack Color Computer, let alone the TRS-80 Model 2 that'd been
around a couple of years. After I saw it _with_ disk drives, I wasn't
very impressed either. No 8088 box ever equalled a contemporary 6809
box, and was hard-pressed to rival a Z-80. (I can track down
documentation to the effect that the IBM PC was in large part a
reaction to the mainframe connectivity options of the TRS-80 Model 2
-- though it was a long while before IBM offered SNA/SDLC in its
"personal" computers).
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The PC was introduced in 1981. IBM had no clue
as to how popular it would
become, or who their customers would be. The cassette interface was there
to provide for a less expensive entry-level system. They soon discovered
that almost everyone that bought a PC bought a floppy disk controller and
drive.
Has anyone ever seen an IBM PC without disk drives? I certainly never have.