Re: Seeking reverse-engineers - Apple II VisiCalc

[mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

On Feb 1, 1:56 am, Michael Black <et...@ncf.ca> wrote:

> Or, decades later, people have forgotten or even never knew that there
> were home computers before the "IBM PC".  Again, it's because the previous
> computers are dwarfed by the arrival of that computer, fused with many
> people having arrived after that point.  It doesn't mean there weren't
> small computers before IBM came along, just that few remember.

It really didn't help that Apple themselves tried very hard to forget
that they made any computers before the Macintosh. It's a great
historical irony that whilst Apple strived to build the ultimate
computing 'appliance',  the industry was commoditised by a machine
architecture that owes more than a little homage to the Apple II

Matt