Newsweek mentions VCFe and Sellam

2 Aug 2001

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  : Re: Newsweek
mentions VCFe and Sellam
 http://www.msnbc.com/news/606595.asp?0nw=n18#hobby  
 Hey.  Very Nice, and well deserved I should add.

 The quiz asks "When was Windows first announced"
 the missing punch-line is When was it delivered?  Wasn't 
 this one of the most aggregious examples of vaporware,
 where the product didn't ship for -Years-? 
In December 1983, I took a recent issue of some PC magazine
into a Radio Shack, and showed them the Radio Shack ad with 
a picture of Windows 1.0 (or 0.75?) running on a Tandy 2000. 
I said this is what I want. They said we have the computer 
but we've never seen or heard of Windows. What's that?

I do recall when I finally got a copy to play with, late
'86 or early '87, but ISTR that Windows 2.0 shipped in '87.

-dq

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Newsweek mentions VCFe and Sellam