On 03/27/2011 10:41 AM, Beam Me Up Scotty wrote:
On 3/27/2011 1:14 PM, Nickname unavailable wrote:

IBM was the main driving force of 'mini-computers' in the early 80's .
HRM BG is one lucky SOB. And the rest is history . . .

actually it was commodore, atari and apple. ibm was a late comer into
the mini-computer race.


Sinclare was a tiny little computer that was affordable and you saved
programs onto a casset tape. I had one, it was among the first
affordable computers.

Sinclair

The IBM desktop personal computer was the first successful iteration of
what we use today. Not the first, but the first successful. Apple was
the first style over substance computer.