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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
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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.