Blake; I agree with you...(re:Apple II was a toy)... <smirk> Eniac, by comparison was also a toy...(I wonder how many lives it saved???) Heck, Eniac has it 'all over' the Abacus - Gosh, those darn Babylonians seem so primitive nowadays!

At 11:23 PM 6/13/96 EDT, Blake Wehlage wrote:

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At 09:35 AM 6/13/96 -0800, jim bell wrote:

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But the Apple II WAS a toy! Non-detached keyboard, poor placement of reset key, upper-case only, 40-character wide display, odd microprocessor, VERY SMALL capacity floppies (which were very slow as well), as well as a hostile legal situation regarding the building of clones. Hell, they even objected to other companies building boards which plugged into the bus!

I was not a toy it was what started the PC revolution

Grandly ignoring the Altair, the TRS-80 Model I, the IMSAI, et al. Even Jolt!

Jim Bell jimbell@pacifier.com