23 Apr
1999
23 Apr
'99
4:28 p.m.
That's actually quite true. The technology didn't yet exist in 1950-55 for
the hobbyist to expand on the initial concept and extend it into something
potentially useful or even marginally so. It probably wasn't even terribly
educational.
Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: Hans Franke <Hans.Franke(a)mch20.sbs.de>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Friday, April 23, 1999 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: The "FIRST PC" and personal timelines (Was: And what were
the80s
Just a couple of stray thoughts. While a person
could possibly have
purchased a $300 computer in the 50's, why would they? What could they
have done with it? The answer is almost nothing. The only people who
might have been interested would have been ham radio or electronics
hobbysists, and they would very likely have built there own. I don't
even believe there was a viable used market for low cost computers in
the 50's, they would all have been enormous mainframes.
Where is the difference to the 70s and 80s ?
Gruss
H.
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