26 Oct
2005
26 Oct
'05
5:17 p.m.
On 10/27/2005 at 12:29 AM Adrian Graham wrote:
I was no IBM PC fan even when it came out. Initially, I'd looked at
upgrading my S-100 system with one of Bill Godbout's 8086 boards and some
memory--it would have been cheaper than the PC route back then. But Jade
didn't have any of the cards in stock and was a bit iffy about delivery
times, so I went down to Computerland and bought a PC.
Around then, Sears (from their computer store) was ostensibly selling PCs,
but while they had a demo system with CGA, they didn't have any units for
sale.
For a time, even IBM PCs were hard to come by.
Cheers,
Chuck
From my point
of view, no, but I'm a Digital fan through and through and
so
avoided IBM's stuff back then :)