PBS show

jim bell jimbell at pacifier.com
Fri Jun 14 20:27:20 PDT 1996


At 11:23 PM 6/13/96 EDT, Blake Wehlage wrote:
>At 09:35 AM 6/13/96 -0800, jim bell wrote:

>>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 at pacifier.com






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