What if,... early PCs (was: stepping machanism

From: Merle K. Peirce <at258_at_osfn.org>
Date: Mon Apr 12 17:03:17 1999

We've got a big one of those. In service, as I understand it from ca
1975 to 1997. So it must be a sturdy beast. It's certainly big enbough.

On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Mike Ford wrote:

> >In the business worlds in NY and eastern PA S100 crates were the rule as
> >most were seen as the business strength machines and the apple/trs80
> >as toys. This was by people that didn't care what cpu only that it ran!
>
> At least locally in SoCal we had lots of the Basic 4 "business" computers.
> Nothing but a big empty box with a Z80 inside, but that nice big empty box
> made them a lot of money for way too long.
>
>
>

M. K. Peirce
Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
215 Shady Lea Road,
North Kingstown, RI 02852

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