Re: What no opaque sticky label ont' window?
- From: John Cartmell <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:44:56 +0000 (GMT)
In article <MPG.2192d13380e70661989c9b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Halmyre
<nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.
The first issue of our magazine (Acorn User #1 July/August 1982) included an
article on the implementation of a network of BBC micros and shows the use of
one of the machines with a graphics tablet. The Beeb (Proton = BBC A/B) was
two steps up from the hobbyist machines that had to be put together by the
user (one notoriously using glue because the user had heard that heat could
damage electronic components and so had not soldered the machine!).
Technically the Atom was also post hobbyist.
Of course the US market was different - and practical and affordable machines
arrived there much later.
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John Cartmell - editor AT qercus.com www.qercus.com www.acornuser.com
Qercus/Acorn User: reporting on computers & computing since 1982
Qercus/Acorn User, 30 Finnybank Rd Sale M33 6LR == 0845 006 8822
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