Not asleep, Paul, just working at the time for a software consultancy who saw PC's as the work of the devil, but could make a business deal with HP because of their history with them. That's why I worked exclusively with HP PC's for nearly two years: and yes, I did start with Visicalc too! Didn't think it was relevant to the thread though.
John in Brisbane -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of paul stenquist Sent: Saturday, 1 May 2010 10:02 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: K-7 replacement? On May 1, 2010, at 5:35 AM, John Coyle wrote: > I started with computers in 1982, when the hot PC's were Commodore 64's and > Amiga's, with the TRS-80 the hobbyist machine. You must have been half asleep, if you missed Apple //e. I was working in NY as a journalist, and anyone who could afford to spend more than a pittance worked with a //e and 128k of ram. As far back as 1978, the Apple // was a hot seller for serious users, as it was the machine that ran Visicalc. Apple actually had a substantial business market at the time but didn't pursuit it down the line. <SNIP> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
