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rbowman

On 02/10/2019 06:58 AM, wrote:
The PC Jr was a joke as was the PS/1 and I doubt anyone really cared
much about it. That was at a time when IBM was throwing anything they
could at the wall and hoping it would stick.

I visited a friend that I'd not seen for some time. He worked at IBM
Essex Junction and had a doctorate but he was strictly a hardware guy.
He said he'd finally bought a PC and dragged one of those damn things
out. I gagged.

It's pretty bad when you're upstaged by RatShack/Tandy's 1000.

I'll admit in the '80s I wasn't too sure what Joe Sixpack was going to
do with a PC anyway. They were tools for me and what I was developing
was for industrial or embedded applications. When I bought an Osborne I
it came with SuperCalc and I never figured out what you're supposed to
do with it. 35 years later Excel still is a mystery. People do
impressive things with it but it reminds me of using a screwdriver for a
chisel.