Re: The Apple ][ was cool!

["ruud.dingemans" <ruud.dingemans@wanadoo.nl>]

> > 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.


True.  In fact, the original pc was deliverd with a cassette interface (!)
... and a disk drive, of course. But AFAIK there were some
'cassette-only IBM PC home computers' sold
at the very beginning. In the XT, this interface was of course dropped though.
 

> 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.

Well, the AII at least had slots, where you could put cpu cards in -
which could be Z80 or
some very fast accelerators of course, which probably would have
equalled the original 8088 pc.

Regards, Ruud