29 Apr
2012
29 Apr
'12
11:41 a.m.
On 4/29/2012 12:25 PM, TeoZ wrote:
Home computing never took off until the software industry exploded.
There are tons of computer models like the ADAM and my Timex 2068 that
never went anywhere because there was little software available for the
masses. Plenty of people had computers before the 80's, they just tended
to write their own software as needed.
I tend to think the lack of floppy disk with a real OS , killed the 8
bitters
out there. I was just looking at some old mags from the 80's,PC DOS and
CP/M was it for general purpose OS's. I wanted to get a 6809 machine
back then, but I could not find software to with the hardware.
Ben.