*** Re: 30 years of personal computer...
Bryan Pope
bpope at wordstock.com
Fri Dec 16 15:07:08 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?
>
The link should have been:
http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/total-share.ars/
Sorry bout that....
Cheers,
Bryan
> 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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