9 Nov
2007
9 Nov
'07
2:08 p.m.
Richard wrote:
In article <4734C8E2.7040506 at yahoo.co.uk>,
Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> writes:
Weren't we well into S100 bus territory by then and all the various
systems/boards that went with it? I did actually goof though in thinking that
the original PET was 1979 (and so the likes of Acorn and Research Machines
cabinets were appearing on the scene) - I didn't realise it was a couple of
years earlier.
I think it's not that they're
particularly bad, just that I'm failing to see
why they've got quite the following that they have (unless this is just
another one of those UK/US differences - there were lots of expandable,
well-built, well-documented systems around in the UK back in the day, but
perhaps that wasn't so true of the US?)
What "expandable, well-built, well-documented systems around in the
UK" were available in 1977/1978?