On 2017-07-20 20:03, Paul Koning wrote:
On Jul 20, 2017, at 1:52 PM, Johnny Billquist <b...@softjar.se> wrote:
The earliest documents I've found for the GIGI are late 1980, but most are from
around mid 1981.
Either way, mass storage sure is a sore point, but there were other examples of
micros around that era with a built-in BASIC and no mass storage (or mass
storage introduced at a later point in time), so it wasn't totally unique.
I would definitely classify it as a micro either way.
By that definition, the PLATO Programmable Terminal, of around 1975, is a micro
also. It too has a graphics display, support for downloaded user programs (in
TUTOR not BASIC), and no local storage.
I have no knowledge at all about the PLATO Programmable Terminal, but it
certainly sounds like it might be classified as a micro.
I found the definition in Wikipedia to actually be pretty good. If you
say that the PLATO system matches that, then I don't have a problem
calling it a micro. But, as I said, I don't know anything about it
myself, I can't really comment.
But see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcomputer
Johnny
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: b...@softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
_______________________________________________
Simh mailing list
Simh@trailing-edge.com
http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
