[Tfug] IBM's 100th

[keith smith]

IBM did not invent the PC.  I think someone in New Mexico did and it was headless - it only had switches and lights. http://oldcomputers.net/altair.html

 I think the first computer with a monitor might have been the first computer Waz and Jobs built - I think they called it the Apple one ??? or maybe it was just Apple.

IBM was a big guys toy store and took the tiny little micro and gave it legitimacy.  IBM  create the garage clone / corporate computer marketing strategy where the masses would buy garage micro's and IBM would sell top end micro's which was supposed to be the cream.  IBM failed and the rest is history.    

Or at least that is how I recall it.

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Keith Smith

--- On Thu, 6/16/11, erich <erich1 at copper.net> wrote:

From: erich <erich1 at copper.net>
Subject: [Tfug] IBM's 100th
To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
Date: Thursday, June 16, 2011, 10:12 AM

OK
        Nostalgia buffs here's a nice clip for IBM's 100th

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39jtNUGgmd4

My first PC was from Radio Shack. If IBM invented the PC,
they certainly didn't extract heavy royalties.


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