28 Oct
2006
28 Oct
'06
2 p.m.
Hi,
Jules Richardson said:
Fred Cisin wrote:
Both Apple and RS were big enough in the uk circa 1978/9 on to support a
number of dedicated hardware and software suppliers. Both were used
quite a bit by small businesses* that couldn't afford cp/m kit, as
well as hobbyists like me. (I got a TRS-80 Model 1 around the beginning
of '78 - still got it...)
The Apple II was also rebadged and marketed by ITT, in a silver case IIRC.
* I wrote and maintained some small business software for the TRS-80
in the early days. Computers were very new to most people at that time
and users required a lot of (profitable) hand-holding!
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Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb at dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Jim Isbell, W5JAI wrote:
Although both TRS-DOS and Apple-DOS were pretty much insignificant outside of
the US, I would have thought. I don't think RS or Apple ever could have
developed a world market the way the CP/M guys did.
OK, where did TRSDOS fit in? It was before MSDOS
as far as sale to the public.
TRS-DOS, Apple-DOS, and CP/M were the three biggest players in
MICROcomputers before MS-DOS came along.