Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!oddjob!gargoyle!ihnp4!homxb!mtuxo!mtune!codas!novavax!midas!jhagen From: jhagen@midas.UUCP (Jarom Hagen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: IBM PC release date (was Re: How to start a Holy War; Microprocessors) Message-ID: <754@midas.UUCP> Date: Thu, 3-Dec-87 08:31:56 EST Article-I.D.: midas.754 Posted: Thu Dec 3 08:31:56 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 8-Dec-87 05:01:32 EST References: <4499@pyr.gatech.EDU> <6500003@hpindda.HP.COM> <26329B5U@PSUVMA> Organization: Gould CSD, Fort Lauderdale, FL Lines: 23 Summary: I remember that 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.