30 Sep
2005
30 Sep
'05
1:32 p.m.
On 30/09/05, Scott Stevens <chenmel at earthlink.net> wrote:
Nope. It's a Tandy Pocket Computer. It has a one line LCD display.
It's highly non-buzzword compliant. I mean, you program it in BASIC for
God's sake. I think it has 4K of memory.
Not familiar with that one, I'm afraid. May be one of the many
machines that didn't really catch on over here.
Until the rise of the PC, European microcomputers and American ones
evolved in quite different directions - mainly because American ones
were too damned expensive for us in the Old World so we used cheaper,
more efficient machines. I bought train tickets in Amsterdam in 1990
OK, I'm
impressed, I have to admit it.
It's hardly a 32-bit mutitasking GUI-based RISC machine, though, is
it? :-)
from a woman using an Atari ST workstation; they were
the kit of the
whole Centraal station, as far as I could see. I knew labs and
businesses as well as schools in Britain entirely based on Acorn
32-bit RISC micros running RISC OS - even the Acorn licensed Unix,
RISC-IX, was too expensive. I believe Amigas as well as STs were very
widespread in Germany. Serious (& rich, back then) British DTP types
used Macs and still do.
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