First Internet message and ...

ben bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca
Tue Nov 26 20:43:52 CST 2019


On 11/26/2019 7:09 PM, TeoZ via cctalk wrote:
>
> The only reason Apple sold so many Apple II's was because some software 
> designer came out with Visicalc. So many machines were sold that they 
> ended up cheap enough and useful enough to end up in schools and homes 
> where before they were only sold to corporations. IBM's release of the 
> PC with open architecture and all the people who cloned it and made 
> software and hardware for it that IBM never envisioned is the reason 
> X86/X64 is so dominant not that is was the first or the best.
>
But the stange thing now, all the 8 bitters are making a come back
like the z80 with CP/M (USA) and the 6502 with BBC Micro (UK).
What ever happened to all the wierd early transitor computers that were 
like 48+ bits and 4K of core memory hit the surplus market in the mid
1970's?




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