On 09/01/2019 09:39, silverdr@wfmh.org.pl wrote: > Just in reality the IBM PC was anything but cheap as far as I recall. It was cheaper if you bought it with MS-DOS than CP/M (Digital Research wanted to preserve their image as a premium product). Apple 2 & PET's weren't much cheaper either. > The later clones were and (as it looked from the perspective of the place I lived at the time) flipped the market completely. I only used an actual IBM machine once, I think it was an AT. It was dog slow. My first job upgraded from apple 2 to some pc clone that I don't remember the name of, my second job were an olivetti reseller. There were M28, M240 & M380. Although I got stuck with an Amstrad PC1512 (that had been upgraded to 640k), but it was still pretty good for an XT class machine.Received on 2019-01-09 15:03:32
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