B5U@PSUVMA.BITNET (George A. Brownfield) (11/30/87)
In article <6500003@hpindda.HP.COM>, atchison@hpindda.HP.COM (Lee Atchison) says: > >If memory serves me correctly, the first Sun was made in 1981 or 1982. >Definitely not as early as the IBM PC (1978? 1979?, something like that). >-------- >Lee Atchison Whoa - someones memory is screwed - IBM (and their loyal fans) were quick to celebrate it's fifth anniversery earier this year or in late 86 - making the release in late 81 or early 82 ( I want to say 81 but something is bothering me on that). I of course alway boasted back that the Apple II was celebrating its TENTH anniversary in the same year and that usually quieted down the IBM fans =-> ------- George A. Brownfield B5U @ PSUVMA Aerospace Engineering Major B5U @ PSUVM The Pennsylvania State University BITNET: B5U @ PSUVM UUCP: {akgua,allegra,cbosgd,ihnp4}!psuvax1!psuvma.bitnet!b5u "Women, cats, and golf; man was not ment to understand these things."
jhagen@midas.UUCP (Jarom Hagen) (12/03/87)
In article <26329B5U@PSUVMA>, B5U@PSUVMA.BITNET (George A. Brownfield) writes: > Whoa - someones memory is screwed - IBM (and their loyal fans) were quick to > celebrate it's fifth anniversery earier this year or in late 86 - making the > release in late 81 or early 82 ( I want to say 81 but something is bothering > me on that). I of course alway boasted back that the Apple II was celebrating > its TENTH anniversary in the same year and that usually quieted down the IBM > fans =-> I remember that because I bought my first computer system in December of 1981. An apple ][+ with a whopping 64K bytes of memory. :-). The other systems I was considering were an IBM PC with 64K bytes of memory, (no software because it was recently released) and a 48K atari 800. I remember I passed up the IBM system because it cost about $500 more than the Apple, and I passed up the Atari because it only had BASIC to work with. (I wanted Pascal) I still have and use the Apple ][+, but the keyboard is giving me problems. (No, I don't do any serious development work on it anymore ) -- Jarom Hagen UUCP: {calma, novavax, sun, seismo}!gould!jhagen If anything expressed resembles an actual opinion of Gould, living or dead, it was purely coincidental.