Actually Don, the Apple II preceded the IBM PC and had a very strong
following. As the owner of a consulting firm that placed some Apple IIs
doing some difficult, at that time, interfacing to main frames we
welcomed the appearance of the IBM PC when it came on the scene. We had
the second IBM PC in Birmingham and after a couple of days of evaluation
recompiled our software and the rest was history.
73s Jim, W4ATK
On 5/27/2014 9:31 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
And those computers Tom Watson was speaking of took a large controlled
environment room just for the various pieces. It was certainly not a
desktop computer.
Desktop computers did not come into being until the advent of the IBM
PC in the 1980s. I bought my daughter a new IBM PC with 2 floppy
drives and 64k of ram for her to use in her college classes. It was
later upgraded with a 5 MB hard drive which replaced one of the floppy
drives (3.5 inch floppys).
We have come a long way since that time. That system cost $2500 at
the time, now I can buy a computer with a LOT more capability for less
than $300.
73,
Don W3FPR
On 5/27/2014 9:43 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:
At sometime in the 50's, the President of IBM is alleged to have
said, "The worldwide market for computers is probably about twelve."
Apparently he didn't know Doug.
73,
Fred K6DGW
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On 5/27/2014 1:29 PM, Doug Person via Elecraft wrote:
I probably have 15 working computers.
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