On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 12:02:33 EST, Ed Finnell wrote: > >In a message dated 1/3/2008 9:20:14 A.M. Central Standard Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >APPLE II (one with a monitor), should be classified by definition as the >FIRST >Personal Computer. Those *other* mo-sheens w/o a monitor are suspect?!?! >>> >But it was a copy of the STAR from PARC???
Nope. The Apple II predated the Star. Maybe you are thinking of the Lisa or the Macintosh. I don't know how similar either of them was to the Star, though I do know that Smalltalk and the Star were important influences. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
