Microsoft-Paul Allen

[Fred Cisin]

On Sat, 20 Oct 2018, Jim Manley via cctalk wrote:
> IBM wasn't even aware of the penetration of dial-up among consumers
> and very small businesses, or they would have initially offered
> modems, at least as options, if not in package combos.  Retailers who
> understood the consumer and very small business markets quickly began
> offering modems in response to the vacuum that IBM had created.

They DID offer the Async Card  (Serial RS-232, AND 20mA) for using modems, 
serial printers, etc.


Similarly, although they sold a joystick board, they didn't sell 
joysticks.  DA15 connector for two joysticks.
In some of the documentation, the sketch of a joystick was clearly the 
Radio Shack Coco joystick (which needed a different connector)

LATER, they sold a joystick when the PCJr came out.


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Grumpy Ol' Fred     		cisin at xenosoft.com