Re: Computing Editorial (please read)

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <3E3F1382.2000909@noneofyourbusiness.com>,
Exegete  <millers@noneofyourbusiness.com> wrote:
 
> Paul Schlyter wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> OTOH the average person isn't a future computer engineer.....
>>  
>> Computers change as their target change: around 980, only computer
>> engineer-like people would even think of buying one.  
> 
> I assume you really meant 1980. In America, at least, you would be dead 
> wrong. You forgot VisiCalc, which some credit with making the Apple II, 
> and microcomputers as a whole, successful.
> 
> Now, if you had said 1976, or even perhaps 1977....
 
True -- I forgot about Visicalc.  However I did write "around 1980",
so let's make that 1977.....  :-)
 
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