Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 05, 2004 01:22 PM
Hmmm - first PC was the Altair 8800 - which was even less useful in base form than the Apple 1. The Apple II was released about the time of the first West Coast Computer Faire - I was there and didn't remember much about the Apple II (but did get a flyer). The machine that made the most impression on me was the Compucolor (also made quite an impression on Jim Edlin of the early days of PC Mag).
What made the Apple II a roaring success was Visicalc. Similarly, what made the IBM PC (and 86-DOS -er- MS-DOS) was Lotus 123. Microsoft Windows didn't take off until version 3.0 - the big selling point was that Windoze, not the applications, took care of the hardware drivers (printers, vidoe cards, etc).
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Re:IBM was not the first PC
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 05, 2004 01:22 PMWhat made the Apple II a roaring success was Visicalc. Similarly, what made the IBM PC (and 86-DOS -er- MS-DOS) was Lotus 123. Microsoft Windows didn't take off until version 3.0 - the big selling point was that Windoze, not the applications, took care of the hardware drivers (printers, vidoe cards, etc).
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