On 2021-08-14 16:46, geneb via cctalk wrote:
On Fri, 13 Aug 2021, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:There were many of us who said that it was the END of the era. And that in a few years, more that half of the personal computers would be PC, or imitations thereof.Yep. It ushered in the era of billions of identical x86 shitboxen. :(
I recall attending a demo of the PC at IBM Toronto. About 40 of us in the room. Notable was that the presenter chose slides with a light-pen on his (non-PC) screen.
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