On Jan 3, 2008, at 9:08 AM, Tom Marchant wrote:
On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 14:23:12 -0600, Ed Gould wrote:
<http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/feature-modder-
hacks-1980s-ibm-pc-to-play-full-motion-color-video>
This represents itself to be the first PC ever. I do not know if this
is true or not. You can make up your own mind.
As others have noted, there were plenty of earlier examples.
(Thanks, John
Giltner, for your interesting post.)
Both Byte and Dr. Dobb's Journal were in publication for years
before the IBM
PC was announced. Both magazines primarily covered inexpensive
personal
computing. You could find dozens of examples of computers in their
pages
before the announcement of the PBM PC. Just a few:
MITS Altair
IMSAI
Apple 1 and II
Osborne
Commodore PET
KIM-1
Commodore VIC-20
TRS-80
Atari 800
--
Tom Marchant
Tom:
(and all the others)
Thank you for correcting my entry. I am really a person that has
little memory about the early PC history. IIRC the item that John G
sent put it pretty straightforward that the 5150 wasn't even close. I
apologize to the group for sending out (what I thought was good
information). I vaguely remember there being some sort of duel
between IBM and MS about DOS. That is how bad my memory is on this
subject matter. I do remember somewhere in 1992 (I think) that they
forced a PC on me at work and I hated every moment because the 3270
emulation sucked and I proved to my bosses boss it wasn't exactly 100
percent 3270 look a like. Since my bosses boss was in charge of
bringing it in it did not enamor me with him. Especially when I
showed him up that it didn't work correctly.
Ed
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