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To: sionnsar

That’s true. Those computers were okay if you wanted to learn to program a computer, or if you wanted to hire someone to do software for your specific business. Otherwise they were worthless to the home user.

My first computer was a TRS-80 Model I with 4K of RAM and no disc drive. It didn’t take me long to realize I didn’t want to be a computer programmer.


82 posted on 01/17/2009 10:27:02 AM PST by wolfpat (Revolt, and re-establish the Constitution as the law of the land!)
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To: wolfpat
The office where I worked used the CP/M machines just fine. Wordstar and Calcstar were two end-user apps I remember the folks in the front office using.

I worked for the company that made my CP/M machine and believe me, most of our sales were not to programmers or hobbyists.

83 posted on 01/17/2009 10:42:59 AM PST by sionnsar (Iran Azadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY)|http://trad-anglican.faithweb.com/|RCongressIn2Years)
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