23 Jan
2007
23 Jan
'07
1:08 a.m.
--- Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
The AT started in 1984. Some areas (both
geographic, and social)
immediately went for it, and some put it off as long
as they could, since
the IBM/MICROS~1 software didn't provide any real
incentive to upgrade
other than high density drives and a little faster;
until Windoze 3.1 and OS/2.
I think price had a lot to do with it also. For most
people (the ones I knew anyway) it was out of their
league. Still, being compared to the IBM PC/AT was a
selling point in my selecting the Tandy 2000, but it
was primarily due to it's enhanced graphics. I did
eventually buy a real compatible, but it was somewhat
dated by the time I got it in '89, and in fact was a
surlpus item from some vendor in Ohio, an ITT Xtra XP.
Not a true "AT", but rather a hybrid that was 8-bit in
every other respect save for the uP.
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