On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Jules Richardson wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 12:00 -0800, Rick Bensene wrote:
> > Tektronix was really fickle when it came to computers.
>
> Which is a shame; they built some really nice stuff. I get the
> impression they were always a little edgy about seriously moving into
> the computer market (despite making some incredible quality machines)
> and so never quite committed themselves (at least in all the operations
> that went around building the hardware)
The Tektronix 4051 was more advanced than any other microcomputer on the
market circa 1976 by a longshot. It had excellent graphics generating
capability, built-in screen, a fast, high capacity tape drive, and a very
advanced built-in BASIC interpreter. Compare this against what was
contemporary for the time: The Altair/IMSAI, Apple-1, etc.
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