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Posted: 02 Mar 2012

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PC and Printer

PC and Printer
Overland Trail Museum, Sterling, Colorado, USA. An Epson IBM-PC clone with a Royal printer, which looks to be a daisy-wheel (remember those)? It makes you feel old to see these things in museums! At least the hand-crank calculator to the right is a bit before my time. I remember my dad had one when I was a kid, and for some reason wouldn't let us do math problems on it-- ;)
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 slgwv
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Yeah, the C-64 was every bit the PC pioneer as the Apple II and the CPM machines, but it doesn't get nearly the attention. The Rodney Dangerfield of PCs--no respect!
10 years ago.
 Cold War Warrior
Cold War Warrior
I backed the wrong horse in the 1980s and went down the Amiga cul de sac rather than PC. At least I never went for the eight track cartridge music system!
7 years ago.
slgwv club has replied to Cold War Warrior
I started with CP/M, which turned out to be another dead end. My old Eagle II CP/M machine even illustrates the Wikipedia article:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Computer#/media/File:Eagleiicomp.jpg
(I can tell because I recognize the labels I attached!) I'd donated it to a computer museum in the Bay Area in the mid 00s, and evidently they contributed the photo.

I got one of the early IBM PCs in the fall of 1983 on getting a consulting gig. PCs were still not taken seriously in many parts of the corporate world, at least here, and IBM's name conferred a _lot_ of legitimacy. (Ironically, corporate IT departments _were_ taking PCs seriously by fighting them tooth and nail!) So I've been in the PC world ever since--
7 years ago.

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