[X4U] "Who makes the best personal computers?" vote at Forbes

Muckerheide muckerheide at comcast.net
Fri Feb 11 23:00:38 PST 2005


In late Œ79 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
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