15 Feb
2013
15 Feb
'13
11:35 p.m.
On 02/15/2013 02:12 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
Tandy and Amstrad machines had one accessory available
that AFAIK was not
avaialbe for other clones (it was avaialbe for IB< 5150/5160/5170
machines). This accessory is rather important to me. I refer, of course,
to a schematic diagram.
There were many manufacturers, mostly forgotten in the early days of the
IBM PC. Most didn't anticipate the wide acceptance of the PC platform.
Personally, I was sorely disappointed that the 5150 didn't use a 68K
CPU, like the lab computer that was annouced just weeks before. That
might have been a game-changer.
Corona PC? MAD Intelligent Systems PC? Seequa Chameleon? Visual (yes,
they made a PC)? The list is very long. We tend to remember only the
brands that managed to hang on for a while, such as Tandy, Packard-Bell,
Leading Edge. etc. Many never made it past the 8086 stage.
--CHuck