7 Mar
2013
7 Mar
'13
12:43 a.m.
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 1:57 AM, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
On Mon, 4 Mar 2013, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. wrote:
1977 for UK ?39.95. I still have mine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MK14 programmed in assembler
Comparing the the group of students applying for
computer science at the
University of Cambridge in 2005 with those who had applied in 1995 they
noted that there were half as many and that they didn't know how to
program while those in the older group did. This seemed odd given that
the younger generation had grown up in a world where computers were so
much more common,
but the cheapest computers in the first half of
the
1980s cost $100 and were practically useless for anything except
programming in Basic
citation, please $100 did NOt buy you anything that could run CP/M,
MS-DOS, Apple-DOS nor
ANY other operating system.
A computer is a computer regardless of OS or otherwise.
citation, please
My MOTHER was able to find a mass-marketed machine with drive and OS for
$500.
Cannot have looked hard
1980 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zx80
1981 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zx81 ?69.95 assembled, 1.5 million,
I call that mass market
Dave Caroline