*** Re: 30 years of personal computer...
Gene Ehrich
ygehrich at yahoo.com
Fri Dec 16 14:50:07 CST 2005
You must be seeing a different web page than I do when I click on the link.
How do I find these graphs?
At 11:32 AM 12/16/2005, you wrote:
> > http://arstechnia.com/articles/culture/total-share.ars/
>
>ITYM "arstechnica" (note second C) ;)
>
>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. :)
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