Paul Schlyter wrote:
In article <3DFFFC10.20500@noneofyourbusiness.com>, Exegete <millers@noneofyourbusiness.com> wrote:Byron Q. Desnoyers Winill wrote:At the bottom of their webpages and announcements they always refer to the II.Ah yes, the "Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II." That is rewriting history in its own right. My research suggests that a lot of people were coming up with similar ideas at the time. Apple was simply the darling of the 'revolution' becausethey met with tremendous success.But that's the point. They were successful, and thus, did "ignite" the personal computer revolution.Nah, the company that did "ignite" the personal computer revolutionwas Intel, who created the very first microprocessor, and then several other microprocessors after that. Without the microprocessor, there would have been no personal computers at all....
Well, without the internal combustion engine there would be no automobile industry, but here the makers of the "engine" never dreamed of the "car."
Sure, there were other machines, and other companies, but it was Apple's success that convinced IBM that here was a market that they needed to get into.Both Apple's and IBM's computers were too pricey for the average person
Depends on what you mean by the "average" person. The "average" person couldn't make a computer out of a pile of chips, resistors, capacitors and boards either. Frankly, I coudn't afford the first TRS-80, and, at a later stage, I couldnt' afford a Timex-Sinclair 1000. Though, two years later, I could afford 6 times the price for a Coleco ADAM.
Roy to buy -- those who bought these machines were either
enthusiasts or businesses. Only when the cheap clones later arrived did the perconal comuter become cheap enough for the average person.
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