8 bit vs other Computers.

Well the Micom 2000 came out in 1986 while the Apple was still in Woz's garage, with a 31x80 display(3 lines were control lines), and 64k memory. It used a NEC D8080 and it's Qume daisywheel printer attained 55 cps. It could do underline, subscript and superscript, and straightline graphics ( end of lines were automatically joined if you over- or under-scrolled) so you could make borders and frames. You could do cut and paste and merge separate documents and had a sort feature. I used mine to make a little sales brochure for a community paper. It could also do background communication with it's "Micronet" (NASA had 50 of them hooked up to their mainframe), interfacing with mainframes and phototypsetting equipment, something they called bi-synchronous, and asynchronous to use with modems. They also had an "OCR-B" , a bilingual optical character reader before 1981. It had math ability and it's own version of MS80 Basic. Pretty useful 8-bit I'd say. Of course marketers always reinvent the wheel like MS did with its' plug-n-play "breakthru". Lawrence lgwalker(a)mts.net bigwalk_ca(a)yahoo.com