The very first personal computers - How many are left?

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Fri Apr 11 14:48:01 2003

On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Tony Duell wrote:

> The other point is that the 9830 is fairly similar (to the user) to the
> IBM5100. It's about the same size (albeit with only a 1-line display), it
> runs a high-level language from internal ROM, it has built-in mass
> storage, etc. And yet the 5100 is a bit later than the 9830. Why the
> former gets all the glory is beyond me...

A multi-line display on a CRT helps a lot ;)

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