Re: New Apple II SuperSite Online

["Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@attglobal.net>]

Um . . . I sorta hate to get involved in this, but an awful lot of the
serious business computing in the computer world of 1980 was happening on
S100-bus computers running CP/M. See if you can't find some back issues of
Byte magazine from that era, and you'll quickly see what I mean. The Apple
II was the computer for "the rest of us," if you will.

Having said that, I am quite sure that it was the Apple II that was the
hardware model for the original PC. Although I'm not so sure but that we
would all be better off with a bus-based system.

Tom Zuchowski

"Matthew T. Russotto" <russotto@wanda.vf.pond.com> wrote in message
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> In article <8s96gq$s0m$1@merope.saaf.se>, Paul Schlyter <pausch@saaf.se>
wrote:
> }
> }Please don't overrate the Apple II that much.  If there never had
> }been an Apple II, there would CERTAINLY still have been home
> }computers!!!  Remember that many home computer users used other
> }computers than the II.  There was for instance all those computer
> }running CP/M, a movement which would have prevailed even in the
> }absence of the Apple II.
>
> Maybe.  Or maybe it would just be a passing fad only taken up by geeks.
> --
> Matthew T. Russotto                                russotto@pond.com
> "Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
> of justice is no virtue."