Re: What no opaque sticky label ont' window?
- From: Peter J Seymour <moz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:14:42 +0000
Halmyre wrote:
Not really. Most were quite capable given the technology of the time. What happened with the IBM PC was corporate muscle. When the PC started moving into businesses, it also started to appear in homes despite the huge expense at the time. After that economies of scale took over and we have todays mediocre, hugely complex result.
All the PC's predecessors were 'hobby' machines, for want of a better expression, albeit that VisiCalc turned the Apple II into a business machine. What I meant was that the IBM PC is considered, rightly or wrongly, Year Zero as far as the home PC is concerned.
For those in the know, the IBM PC was a late-comer. It was a sort of mini-battleship with a typical IBM design of a basic version with the need for all sorts of chargeable add-ons to get a workable machine. Eventually, IBM abandoned it because it wasn't profitable enough for them.
Peter
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