On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 7:18 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote:
> > D'ya mean like an automobile company making more than one model? Surely > there is no need for Toyota to make both a Corolla AND a Camry! > > Hmm... not really sure about that comparison. After all, it's not like the Corolla and Camry need different fuel and/or travel on separate roads. Plus, I expect that despite their many differences there are probably quite a few fundamental similarities (similar stereos, HVAC controls, brake components, etc). The Model 1 was a wild venture into a field that they knew little about, > and didn't know what to expect. > Ask Allison about what they expected. > It turned out that what they made was surprisingly close to correct for > people like US. > Well, other than 16 lines by 64 characters of B&W, and a memory map that > was not compatible with CP/M. > I guess they fixed that by the time the 4 came along. > But what about pocket computers, PDAs, calculators? Have to come out with > some offerings there. > Well, like I said before. I think you could easily dismiss the calculators and PDAs, since they were more of an appliance (i.e. create text documents that are easily interchangeable with other machines). Heck even a lot of the early PDAs could create spreadsheets that were compatible with Lotus 1-2-3, even moreso in some cases they were built in applications. > > Would they have been more successful if the model 2000 had been a PC > clone, instead of "better than"? > Well, in some respects they eventually managed to do that with the Tandy 1000s... some incompatibilities aside.
