3 Jul
2012
3 Jul
'12
9:19 p.m.
Ethan Dicks wrote:
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
> Can anyone give a resonable justification fo that answer. I actualyl
> can';t think of anythign the Mac was 'first' for.
Alan Kay said "The Mac is the first computer good enough to be
criticized". But he considers the Linc to be the first personal
computer. Some people object to that because the owners paid for them
with government money rather than out of their own pockets, but I don't
agree that should be an issue.
First consumer machine with a 3.5" floppy (and/or
no 5.25" floppy in
the era of floppies being standard)?
The HP 150 came out two months earlier.
First consumer machine with
bit-mapped-only video (no text mode)?
Sinclair Spectrum, Corvus Concept and Multitech (now Acer)
Microprofessor II are a few of the earlier bitmapped machines. The
Concept was a bit more expensive than the Mac, but not absurdly so like
the Lisa.
First consumer machine that
100% shipped with a mouse?
That is true, as far as I know.
-- Jecel