Re: World-wide 8-bit computer sales (all-time)?

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <3eff7fb0.35967984@news.netnitco.net>,
vairxpert <vairxpert@hotmail.com> wrote:
 
> On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 15:31:12 +0000 (UTC), pausch@saaf.se (Paul
> Schlyter) wrote:
> 
>>In article <o9ctfvc6143n8sqi01f6lpode89p5stnki@4ax.com>,
>>Peter Thomas  <see-my-sig@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 01:01:20 -0500, Exegete
>>> <millers@noneofyourbusiness.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I loved it. It was slow - compared to an IBM disk drive. From what I've 
>>>> seen of Commodore disk drives, well.... I never had ANY problem with 
>>>> mine. But all the ADAM's I've ever seen had the warning not to leave the 
>>>> tapes on top of a color TV, or it would be erased. Perhaps, or perhaps 
>>>> that was a "cover" for tapes that did go bad.
>>> 
>>> Leaving *any* kind of magnetic storage on top of a television is never
>>> a good thing. I'm not sure why Coleco specified a colour television
>>> either. All TVs, to my knowledge, play around with magnetic fields,
>>> and can damage magnetic media.
>> 
>>Which is why you should never get some models of the Apple Macintosh:
>>a CRT display as well as a floppy and a harddisk inside the same
>>cover..... *shudder*.....
> 
> Have you ever owned a one piece computer system?
 
Only some laptops with LED or LCD screens, where this problem with
magnetic fields doesn't exist.  I always thought 1-piece computers
systems with CRT displays either were too bulky or had a screen
too small.
 
> Those systems were
> designed to work that way so there is no reason people shouldn't have
> bought one.  Just about every high end serious business computer was
> all one piece with either 5.25" or 8" floppy drives back in the early
> 80's.
 
...I don't think so.  CP/M machines were the most common micros used
by businesses back, and they usually had a separate terminal.  And
minis and mainframes (which were the most serious computers back
then) _definitely_ had separate terminals !!!!
 
> The floppy drives on my TRS-80 Model III still work fine till
> this day and have never had a problem with losing data.  My guess is
> the Apple systems had a shielded drive tower just as my Model III
> does.
> 
> Toss a disc or cassette right over any monitor (where there is no
> shielding) and there's going to be problems, especially at start up
> when the degausing coil is activated for a few seconds.
 
No thanks... :-( ....but here you provide an explanation why these
integrated CRT terminals didn't pose a problem to magnetic storage:
back then, degaussing coils were rare.
 
 
 
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