25 May
1998
25 May
'98
2:06 p.m.
On Tue, 26 May 1998, Tony Duell wrote:
No flames, but the PET and the TRS-80 had one
marketting advantage over
the Apple ][ - they were complete systems. Take a TRS-80 or an PET home,
plug it in, and start programming in BASIC. Take an Apple ][ home and
you've either got to get a video monitor or an RF modulator before it
could work.
Oh come on. The PET I can agree with, but the TRS-80 still required the
purchase of an external monitor, and one could just as easily (if not more
easily) have purchased an RF modulator for the Apple. Besides, they're
wording this as though the PET and the Apple ][ came to you as a box of
chips, boards and components. Even still, the Apple ][ and the PET were
both at the 1977 West Coast Computer Faire (April), while the Model 1 was
not even announced until August of '77!
I'm not going to start a technical comparison
flamefest. It's a waste of
time. I grew up with the TRS-80, and little is going to make me dislike
it. Now, I have a couple of model 1s, a model 3, a model 4, a PET 2001, a
pet 8032SK, a couple of Apple ][s, an Apple //e, etc....
Cool. But I'm just pointing out the blatant misinformation on the web
page. Nothing personal.
I'm going to go write a letter to the webmaster and let the bastards have
it.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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