Re: The Apple ][ was cool!

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Roy Miller writes ...
> 
> Rubywand wrote:
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> >
> >      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.
> 
> Actually, it wasn't the cloners, it was IBM itself. The CGA was out in 81-82,
> EGA (640x350 16 out of 64 colors) was out in 84, and VGA came out in 87. All
> released by Big Blue. As for sound, IBM again lead the way (sorta) with the
> Junior, which had three voice music and a "white noise" generator. Not great,
> but better than the PC or the class of 76 sound of the II.
> 
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     PC jr. only demonstrates how totally out of touch with reality IBM was
during the '80's. If Big Blue had remained in charge of PC development the
platform would have been dead by 1987.

     It was the cloners who accelerated adoption of new technology. It was the
cloners who turned the boring, expensive business machine into an entertaining,
low cost computer which, by 1991, had locked up the home market and demolished
the competition.



Rubywand