25 Jan
2005
25 Jan
'05
1:51 a.m.
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Jules Richardson wrote:
On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 12:00 -0800, Rick Bensene
wrote:
The Tektronix 4051 was more advanced than any other microcomputer on the
market circa 1976 by a longshot. It had excellent graphics generating
capability, built-in screen, a fast, high capacity tape drive, and a very
advanced built-in BASIC interpreter. Compare this against what was
contemporary for the time: The Altair/IMSAI, Apple-1, etc.
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Tektronix was really fickle when it came to
computers.
Which is a shame; they built some really nice stuff. I get the
impression they were always a little edgy about seriously moving into
the computer market (despite making some incredible quality machines)
and so never quite committed themselves (at least in all the operations
that went around building the hardware)