Hi Chad,
You wrote:
}- Hmmmm... wasn't the Apple II a commandline machine? Been a
}- while. For that matter, if it was DOS 3.3, that'd be CL,
}- right? Just cause Apple made it, doesn't mean it was a
}- Macintosh.
I stand corrected - without embarassment however, no one can know
it all. My knowledge and expertise begins in the Phanerozoic
Eon, Mesozoic Era, and about the middle of the Jurrasic Period
with the XT, and especially the AT (286s all). That is (just to
show my DOS-elitist-techno-racist hiney <grin>) with *real*
computers, those ancient and beloved "clones" or IBM compatibles
and the open architecture. But you can hardly blame me for my
agreement with my husband, he is my source of alternate resources
after all, when he says that as far as home computers of PC's
anything before the XT was really nothing more than a glorified
calculator, and the XT itself wasn't much better. He asks that I
remind you all that his first machine was a Timex Sinclair,
cassette tapes, hooked to the TV for a monitor, and booted to
BASIC.
My one regret as far as computers are concerned is not that I
missed the Timex Sinclair's and the Apple II+'s - I am sorry I
missed the big boys, UNIX. That is the true root from which
everything else has grown as far as I'm concerned.
Boanne
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