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> On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Jim Strickland wrote:
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> > C64/Amiga/Mac/Apple2/Atari/etc market. The last survivor was the Radio Shack
> > Color Computer - sort of appropriate, since they marketed the first personal
> > computer in the TRS-80 model 1. Note that this also is strictly the US market.
>
> Bahahaha. Ok, come clean: you were really joking, right?
Heh. No. I got my first PC in 1990. 386s had just come out, but an XT was
still a useful machine because nothing really made use of 32 bit computing
at the time. Its CGA graphics were grossly inferior to the Commodore 64
I sold to get it, and it had no sound at all except a few pathetic beeps.
A loaded 386 of the day might have had EGA graphics and a meg or two of ram,
and a sound board (I THINK soundblasters were out in 1990) but it would have
been a multi-thousand dollar machine, and it would have spent its day running
DOS and DOS programs really fast. (mighty 16 mhz?)
At the time software was just starting to be made that wasn't also immidately
ported to the apple2 and commodore platforms, and the mac software world was
starting to really pick up.
And I seem to remember the color computer hardware going on final clearance at
Radio Shack as late as 1994.
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Jim Strickland
jim_at_DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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