Pretty sure you are correct about this, Chris. >My first computer was an IBM 5110 or an Apple II, I don't recall >which one was actually first. Both were around 1977. I have a feeling >the 5110 came first
My first computer was the original Commodore PET (chicklet keyboard, cassette drive, 8k RAM for $795!) of June 1977, first shown at the January CES. So it was of an age with the Apple II, first deliveries of which were in May of that year. MITS Altair preceded both. Before that it was pretty much all homebrew. They were followed by Radio Shack's TRS-80, horrid machine. My wife and I started the first applications software house in the UK, Petsoft, with games, compilers and so on, adding Apple packages, Appleware, in 1978. Got to know PET (and 6502) designer Chuck Peddle and a young man who supplied us with applications called Bill Gates. He showed me something called WIMPS - Windows, Icons, Mice Pointers - they had 'just come up with'. Actually it had been Xerox Parc that came up with that approach but failed to exploit adequately. Then Steve Jobs appeared at Parc (Palo Alto Research Center) with a suitcase of money and asked if anyone wanted a job. The rest is, as they say, history. Julian ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
