Xref: utzoo comp.misc:3046 comp.arch:6004 Path: utzoo!utgpu!bnr-vpa!bnr-di!leibniz!hwt From: hwt@leibniz.UUCP (Henry Troup) Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.arch Subject: Re: History of PCs (also kind of long) Summary: PET was of little impact Keywords: history, pc, workstation Message-ID: <121@leibniz.UUCP> Date: 11 Aug 88 19:08:32 GMT References: <5946@venera.isi.edu> <5458@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, CANADA Lines: 11 The PET had little impact on the field. I used to sell/program them. At the time they were already weak - max 32K RAM, BASIC only, closed hardware system. (Sounds like the early Mac, but the software wasn't great.) The software that carried PET for two years was a suite of programs for pig farmers, and WordPro (a word processor with dot commands). Henry Troup These are not the opinions of Bell Northern Research, but then, what are?