Re: The Apple ][ was cool!

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <3B530194.2AAAC1D8@swbell.net>,
Rubywand  <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:
 
> The early PC's were, indeed, crude machines. However, thanks to
> cloners, this situation changed fairly rapidly. By 1989 you had
> games using 256-color VGA displays and AdLib sound. And, unlike
> most other personal computers, the PC virtually always came with
> a hard drive.
 
No it didn't.  The PC was, from the start, delivered WITHOUT a hard
drive!  A hard drive wasn't added until the XT came along.
 
However, from the very start, all PC's were delivered WITH a socket
for a numerical coprocessor.  That's what I liked most about that
machine: in comparison, most other contemporary micros (including
the Apple II as well as the Apple Mac) were toys.  Which makes some
sense - after all you use toys to play games....


 
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