4 Feb
2007
4 Feb
'07
7:54 p.m.
On 2/4/07, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
I did not mean some other year - what I meant was that in the louder
battles of the 1980s, between the Atari 800, the Apple II, and the
C-64, only the Apple II was around in 1977. The other computers were
1980s technology, not late 1970s technology.
stuck around,
warts and all, for a long, long time. Longer than the
TRS-80, and longer than the PET, its true contemporaries. Even though
the remembered "my computer is better than yours " battles might
have been between the Atari 800, the Apple II, and the C-64, only
one of those machines was around in 1977. The others had faded
away.
Typo?
Did you mean some other year?
The Atari 800, and the earlier 400, the C64, and earlier Vic 20, TI99,
etc. did not exist in 1977. The early battles were on multiple fronts; there was
the "my S100 v
yours", and the "my mass-marketed home computer is better" between Apple,
TRS80 and Pet.
The ones that you are mentioning here are the much later "My 6502 computer
is better" between Apple, Commodore, and Atari.
Right. Sort of my point, except I was trying to point out that
Apple's offering survived more than one round of "my X is better than
your X".
-ethan