From: wxfield@shore.net (Warren)
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 16:10:40 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: PBS show
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Blake;

        I agree with you...(re:Apple II was a toy)...

        <smirk>
        Eniac, by comparison was also a toy...(I wonder how many lives it
saved???)


        Heck, Eniac has it 'all over' the Abacus - Gosh, those darn
Babylonians seem so primitive nowadays!



>At 11:23 PM 6/13/96 EDT, Blake Wehlage wrote:
>>At 09:35 AM 6/13/96 -0800, jim bell wrote:
>
>>>But the Apple II WAS a toy!  Non-detached keyboard, poor placement of reset
>>>key, upper-case only, 40-character wide display, odd microprocessor, VERY
>>>SMALL capacity floppies (which were very slow as well), as well as a hostile
>>>legal situation regarding the building of clones.  Hell, they even objected
>>>to other companies building boards which plugged into the bus!
>>
>>
>>I was not a toy it was what started the PC revolution
>
>Grandly ignoring the Altair, the TRS-80 Model I, the IMSAI, et al.  Even Jolt!
>
>
>Jim Bell
>jimbell@pacifier.com