The "FIRST PC" and personal timelines (Was: And what were the 80s

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 23:55:02 1999

The Apple-][ most certainly did come with built-in Video. That's just about
all that was built-in. BTW, I just gave away one which had an APPLE brand
monitor with it. I bought seven of these at one time, because they did
something I didn't want to have to reinvent, but though the video monitor
came with it, the Apple video is not the monitor, it's the refresh memory
and the video control and timing logic to support it. Of course I've still
got one with only a single drive, + multiple controllers each capable of
either two or four drives, and a bunch of other cards, etc.

Dick

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Thursday, April 22, 1999 10:01 PM
Subject: Re: The "FIRST PC" and personal timelines (Was: And what were the
80s


>> The Apple ][ would qualify, it came with built-in video.
>
>The Apple ][ did not come with a built-in monitor; a monitor was not even
>available from the manufacturer.
>
>The PDP-8/e with VT8-E that I mentioned earlier was shipped by DEC with the
>VT8-E installed, and DEC provided a monitor.
>
>You are making distinctions even more arbitrary (IMHO) than most of the
>"first PC" arguments. It seems like you are picking your criteria in order
>to get an answer you've already selected.
Received on Thu Apr 22 1999 - 23:55:02 BST