2 Nov
2006
2 Nov
'06
4:01 a.m.
Chris M wrote:
The other products were far nicer :-) (By calling the Nimbus 'nasty' in my
other post I meant simply to imply that it was rather uninteresting, not that
there was anything particularly horrible about it)
--- Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
Yep. I certainly get the impression that there was a lot more fault-finding
and fixing going on the the UK than the US, though. People were far more
reluctant to invest money in a machine in the UK unless they could mess around
with it at the hardware level and stand a chance of fixing any problems
themselves (which is probably a reflection on UK society as a whole back then,
rather than being limited to computing)
...whilst the impression I've got of the US
was that
people were far more willing
to upgrade systems reasonably frequently to whatever
the latest thing
available was.
I think the problem with endlessly upgrading an older
machine was getting support somewhere down that road.
Software issues come to mind. Older hardware can get
goofy too, so unless you have an ee degree, it's
probably often more cost effective to toss the old
system (for businesses at least). I think the
disposable pc is alot more of a reality today then in
the 80's though. In education,
yes. Not so much for home or business
use, though. What
timeframe are we talking - say 1982 to 1985 or so?
The Nimbus probably came out in o about '85. I don't
know alot about any of their other products just that they're still around.
Yes, they're one of the few surviving UK computer companies from the 80s.
Quite possibly the *only* one, although I'm sure someone can come up with
other examples (there are a few brand-names still about, but they've been
through all sorts of takeovers and buy-outs that mean they really don't count :-)