Re: World-wide 8-bit computer sales (all-time)?

[paul s <nospam@nospam.forme>]

vairxpert wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 15:31:12 +0000 (UTC), pausch@saaf.se (Paul
> Schlyter) wrote:
> 
>>In article <o9ctfvc6143n8sqi01f6lpode89p5stnki@4ax.com>,
>>Peter Thomas  <see-my-sig@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 01:01:20 -0500, Exegete
>>> <millers@noneofyourbusiness.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I loved it. It was slow - compared to an IBM disk drive. From what I've
>>>> seen of Commodore disk drives, well.... I never had ANY problem with
>>>> mine. But all the ADAM's I've ever seen had the warning not to leave
>>>> the tapes on top of a color TV, or it would be erased. Perhaps, or
>>>> perhaps that was a "cover" for tapes that did go bad.
>>> 
>>> Leaving *any* kind of magnetic storage on top of a television is never
>>> a good thing. I'm not sure why Coleco specified a colour television
>>> either. All TVs, to my knowledge, play around with magnetic fields,
>>> and can damage magnetic media.
>> 
>>Which is why you should never get some models of the Apple Macintosh:
>>a CRT display as well as a floppy and a harddisk inside the same
>>cover..... *shudder*.....
> 
> Have you ever owned a one piece computer system?  Those systems were
> designed to work that way so there is no reason people shouldn't have
> bought one.  Just about every high end serious business computer was
> all one piece with either 5�" or 8" floppy drives back in the early
> 80's.  The floppy drives on my TRS-80 Model III still work fine till
> this day and have never had a problem with losing data.  My guess is
> the Apple systems had a shielded drive tower just as my Model III
> does.

Nearly all those machines had monochrome monitors, no shadowmask so
degaussing is not needed. But 'one-piece' machines still needed some form
of shielding to protect the floppy-drives from the strong magnetic fields
of the deflection coils on the CRT.

-- 
Paul S