On 10 Apr 99 at 19:51, Allison J Parent wrote:
> <The IBM entry into the PC market was in mid-1981, I think, and the Model-3
> <was rushed to get out ahead of it. The Apple-II exlposion wasn't quite
> <underway yet, but the handwriting was on the wall.
>
> No. By then the apple and trs80 were common as house flies. In fact in
> 1980 we used Apples and TRS80s running a similar program for forcasting
> as they were in wide use around the shop. They were both in the market
> in terms of volumes nearing a 500k system each if not more by 1980.
>
> the PC wasn't an impact until 82 maybe 83. Memories and events seem to
> get compressed or expanded. I's even say the PC was not a serious
> contender till mid 83.
>
> Allison
>
I've got issue 2, Vol 1 of PC World dated Mar 83 .Compaqs Portable Computer
was reviewed in this issue, and the reviewer mentions that IBM had introduced
the PC 1 1/2 years earlier.
There was also an announcement of the new IBM Color display. the 5153
An interesting note was that the european model was configured with 64 k
unlike the original 16k US model. They also had the choice of SS or DS drives.
That would explain the dearth of 16k machines in Europe.
ciao larry
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Received on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 21:22:07 BST