18 Jun
2009
18 Jun
'09
1:03 p.m.
On Jun 18, 2009, at 2:01 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
You said "sane definition"...that's the key. Most of the unwashed
masses today will say "It's a calculator!" "Where's the
mouse?"
"Where's the 'start' button?"
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
impressed me
more than any other model. I think it was because it
was advertised alongside all the 8-bitters of the early 1980s in the
magazines, as if it were a full-fledged computer...which, by all
definitions I'm aware of, it certainly is.
It is a computer, both in terms of the intenral architecture and the
facilities it provides to the user, IMHO. Or at least I can't think
of a
sane defintion of 'computer' that would exclude it.