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<FONT FACE="Trebuchet MS"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>In late ‘79 I got a CP/M machine with 64K memory; two 8” double-sided, double-density disks, with about 950KB per side (almost 4 MB).<BR>
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With WordStar 0.92 (dated June 1979).<BR>
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Worked great. Still have it. plus a NEC daisy wheel printer.<BR>
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Jim<BR>
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on 2/11/05 8:56 PM, Steven Rogers at srogers1@austin.rr.com wrote:<BR>
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On Feb 11, 2005, at 7:38 PM, x4u-request@listserver.themacintoshguy.com <BR>
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> At 2:23 PM -0500 on 2/11/05, Aron S. Spencer spoke about [X4U] "Who<BR>
> makes the best personal computers?" vote at Forb thusly:<BR>
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>> <<a href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/02/11/">http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/02/11/</a> <BR>
>> cx_jp_0211polldujour.html><BR>
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> says that IBM introduced the personal computer in 1981.<BR>
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> Gee. I guess my memory of owning an Apple II and then a Lisa in the <BR>
> 1970's is all wrong.<BR>
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Well, I was selling Trash-80's at Rat Shack in 1978. Everyone thought <BR>
they were personal computers. I guess not.<BR>
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SR<BR>
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