19 Nov
2009
19 Nov
'09
3:31 a.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
You're doing it too. You're only listing microcomputer advances.
8-)
Peace... Sridhar
Or, to look at
it another way, if an Apple 1 is worth $50k then surely a ZX80
should be worth at least $10k, or a MK14 even more etc. etc. and they're not.
I can understand the A1 being desirable - but $50k's worth of desirable just
seems totally crazy for something that was only a very small part of computing
history.
Thanks to Cringely, and similar, public perception attributes a
disproportionate amount of computing history to the Apple 1.
Way too many people think that computing history consists in its entirety
of:
Apple 1
Apple ][
IBM PC
Macintosh
along with Wordstar, WordPervert, Word
(which of course was Cringely's personal history of computing experience)
How many "documentaries" never even mention S100, TRS80, Atari, Commodore,
Northstar, Proctology, KIM-1, Electric Pencil, Easy Writer, etc.
and mention CP/M only as an introduction to Bill Gates?