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Subject: [Leica] The History of the Personal Computer
From: philippe.amard at sfr.fr (philippe.amard)
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:51:09 +0100
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Well, if I'm not mistaken, the 68000 went to the moon and landed in my  
Atari 1040 ST ;-)

Faster than any 286 I was using at work for word processing using a  
piece of soft that had been created for one of the major national  
neswpapers here
and, at least here again, there was a suite of educational sofware  
that I don't think has been matched since - with just a tiny floppy  
disk and so little RAM ... those guy were programmers ...
My elder kids learnt two of the R's thanks to it.

The only competitor in that respect was the Amiga, but the software  
offering was poor in comparison.

Ph




Le 15 f?vr. 13 ? 19:37, Richard Man a ?crit :

> The "best" Tandy computer was the "Color Computer." It has the  
> unusual but
> highly sophisticated 6809E. Its instruction set is a thing of beauty  
> and
> has a cult following for many years afterward. In terms of  
> "cultability,"
> it even bests the 68000 used in the Lisa/Mac/Sun workstation. I  
> think the
> closest camera analogy would be a full size 35mmm compact with a small
> sharp lens :-)
>
>
>
> -- 
> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
>
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