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Re: What is Apple II
- Subject: Re: What is Apple II
- From: Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@coli.uni-sb.de>
- Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 18:14:41 +0200
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- Organization: University of Saarland, Computing Center, Germany.
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Erik Klein wrote:
> The Apple I wasn't all that revolutionary or special. Steve and Steve only
> sold a few hundred examples and quickly replaced them with the Apple ][
> which also wasn't particularly special but was very well received and,
> therefore, helpful in moving the computer revolution along. Most of the
> impact, however, came from a couple of guys who wrote a little program
> called VisiCalc. That's what made real people (i.e. not geeks) buy PCs.
Wasn't the Apple II, the Radio Shack TRS-80, and the Commodore PET 2001
the first three computers (coming out at the same time) that were sold
to the general public (not to businesses only, not at geek stores only),
in one piece? I.e. the first Personal Computers?
--
Linards Ticmanis
The Master said, "The business of laying on the colors follows the
preparation of the plain ground."