In late 79 I got a CP/M machine with 64K memory; two 8² double-sided, double-density disks, with about 950KB per side (almost 4 MB). With WordStar 0.92 (dated June 1979). Worked great. Still have it. plus a NEC daisy wheel printer. Jim on 2/11/05 8:56 PM, Steven Rogers at srogers1 at austin.rr.com wrote: > > On Feb 11, 2005, at 7:38 PM, x4u-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > wrote: > >> > At 2:23 PM -0500 on 2/11/05, Aron S. Spencer spoke about [X4U] "Who >> > makes the best personal computers?" vote at Forb thusly: >> > >>> >> <http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/02/11/ >>> >> cx_jp_0211polldujour.html> >> > >> > says that IBM introduced the personal computer in 1981. >> > >> > Gee. I guess my memory of owning an Apple II and then a Lisa in the >> > 1970's is all wrong. > > Well, I was selling Trash-80's at Rat Shack in 1978. Everyone thought > they were personal computers. I guess not. > > SR > > _______________________________________________ > X4U mailing list > X4U at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/x4u/attachments/20050212/dab7bf94/attachment.html