29 Apr
2012
29 Apr
'12
11:25 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Murray McCullough" <c.murray.mccullough at gmail.com>
To: "cctalk" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2012 8:34 PM
Subject: Gone extinct
I came across some interesting reading the other day in
a library book
that I'm sorry I can't remember its name. It essentially said: Can one
subscribe to the theory that vintage computers, such as the Coleco
ADAM, went extinct because they used cassette drives where one spent
more time finding information and recording such which greatly slowed
down processing thereby defeating the purpose of electronic computing?
I?m not sure if this applied to floppy drive systems but computing
never really took off until hard drives came along in the 16-bit
world, i.e., the mid-80s! Classic computing aficionados, particularly
on this site, may have a different take on things.
Murray--
Home computing never took off until the software industry exploded. There
are tons of computer models like the ADAM and my Timex 2068 that never went
anywhere because there was little software available for the masses. Plenty
of people had computers before the 80's, they just tended to write their own
software as needed.