16 Dec
2005
16 Dec
'05
2:42 p.m.
30 year of personal computer market share figures:
http://arstechnia.com/articles/culture/total-share.ars/
Cheers,
Bryan
16 Dec
16 Dec
4:32 p.m.
30 year of personal computer market share figures:
http://arstechnia.com/articles/culture/total-share.ars/
ITYM "arstechnica" (note second C) ;)
I wonder where they got the tidbit that IBM was planning to rebadge the
Atari 800 as their "personal computer" originally. Is that true??
I'm happy to see a history, even a relatively vapid (though it seems
quite factual) one, that still acknowledges Atari and Commodore. Despite
being a Mac user now, with some of the retrospectives out there you'd
figure that IBM and Apple were the only companies that *ever* made computers.
The sales graphs are fascinating and I'm personally pleased to see how
much of that during the 80s was the C64. :)
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4:44 p.m.
30 year of personal computer market share
figures:
http://arstechnia.com/articles/culture/total-share.ars/
ITYM "arstechnica" (note second C) ;)
I wonder where they got the tidbit that IBM was
planning to rebadge the
Atari 800 as their "personal computer" originally. Is that true??
I'm happy to see a history, even a relatively vapid (though it seems
quite factual) one, that still acknowledges Atari and Commodore. Despite
being a Mac user now, with some of the retrospectives out there you'd
figure that IBM and Apple were the only companies that *ever* made computers.
The sales graphs are fascinating and I'm personally pleased to see how
much of that during the 80s was the C64. :)
I like the last graph that has a nice spike of C64 sales... :D
Cheers,
Bryan
4:51 p.m.
On 12/16/05, Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:
Ah... thanks for pointing that out - some typo-squatter has the other domain.
-ethan
30 year of
personal computer market share figures:
http://arstechnia.com/articles/culture/total-share.ars/
ITYM "arstechnica" (note second C) ;) 
5:01 p.m.
Cameron Kaiser wrote:
<soapbox>
It'd be nice to see that article written from a global perspective.
It's a little irritating when people write "this is the way it was" accounts
of history when what they're actually doing is writing down "this is the way
it was in a single country" - it tends to come across as though none of the
other countries in the world made any contribution to the evolution of computing.
Us vintage enthusiasts know that isn't true and that innovation came from all
over, but the wider audience who read the article may not appreciate it.
</soapbox>
30 year of
personal computer market share figures:
http://arstechnia.com/articles/culture/total-share.ars/
ITYM "arstechnica" (note second C) ;)
I wonder where they got the tidbit that IBM was planning to rebadge the
Atari 800 as their "personal computer" originally. Is that true??
I'm happy to see a history, even a relatively vapid (though it seems
quite factual) one, that still acknowledges Atari and Commodore. Despite
being a Mac user now, with some of the retrospectives out there you'd
figure that IBM and Apple were the only companies that *ever* made computers. 
8:50 p.m.
New subject: *** Re: 30 years of personal computer...
You must be seeing a different web page than I do when I click on the link.
How do I find these graphs?
At 11:32 AM 12/16/2005, you wrote:
ITYM "arstechnica" (note second C) ;)
I wonder where they got the tidbit that IBM was planning to rebadge the
Atari 800 as their "personal computer" originally. Is that true??
I'm happy to see a history, even a relatively vapid (though it seems
quite factual) one, that still acknowledges Atari and Commodore. Despite
being a Mac user now, with some of the retrospectives out there you'd
figure that IBM and Apple were the only companies that *ever* made computers.
The sales graphs are fascinating and I'm personally pleased to see how
much of that during the 80s was the C64. :)
9:07 p.m.
New subject: *** Re: 30 years of personal computer...
You must be seeing a different web page than I do when I click on the link.
How do I find these graphs?
The link should have been:
http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/total-share.ars/
Sorry bout that....
Cheers,
Bryan
At 11:32 AM 12/16/2005, you wrote:
ITYM "arstechnica" (note second C) ;)
I wonder where they got the tidbit that IBM was planning to rebadge the
Atari 800 as their "personal computer" originally. Is that true??
I'm happy to see a history, even a relatively vapid (though it seems
quite factual) one, that still acknowledges Atari and Commodore. Despite
being a Mac user now, with some of the retrospectives out there you'd
figure that IBM and Apple were the only companies that *ever* made computers.
The sales graphs are fascinating and I'm personally pleased to see how
much of that during the 80s was the C64. :)
10:58 p.m.
New subject: *** Re: 30 years of personal computer...
On Fri, December 16, 2005 9:07 pm, Bryan Pope said:
The link should have been:
http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/total-share.ars/
Sorry bout that....
There's another hour of my life gone :o) I'm currently investigating Zeta
1.0 purely because I remember installing BeOS PE 5.0 on my work's laptop
when it was released and thinking it was fantastic but lacking real world
(for me) apps. It's not that expensive, I may investigate more.....
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adrian/witchy
Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UKs biggest home computer collection?
4:37 p.m.
On 12/16/05, Bryan Pope <bpope at wordstock.com> wrote:
30 year of personal computer market share figures:
http://arstechnia.com/articles/culture/total-share.ars/
Did these guys get /.ed? All I get is an advertising/portal page.
-ethan
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