30 years of personal computer...

[Bryan Pope]

> 
> > 30 year of personal computer market share figures:
> > 
> > http://arstechnia.com/articles/culture/total-share.ars/
> 
> ITYM "arstechnica" (note second C) ;)
> 

Thanks for the spell check! :)

Fixed clicky link:
http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/total-share.ars/

> I wonder where they got the tidbit that IBM was planning to rebadge the
> Atari 800 as their "personal computer" originally. Is that true??
> 
> I'm happy to see a history, even a relatively vapid (though it seems
> quite factual) one, that still acknowledges Atari and Commodore. Despite
> being a Mac user now, with some of the retrospectives out there you'd
> figure that IBM and Apple were the only companies that *ever* made computers.
> 
> The sales graphs are fascinating and I'm personally pleased to see how
> much of that during the 80s was the C64. :)
> 

I like the last graph that has a nice spike of C64 sales... :D

Cheers,

Bryan