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Originally Posted by Seahawk
Computers. The retail, non-business market didn't enter the equation in the development stage. The first computer I tried to use was an impossible mish-mash..
Internet. The retail....
Aircraft. Flight was mystery, no customer in mind.
GPS. Who knew? The retail...
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Way way back in 1981 the company I worked for bought a brand new IBM PC with DOS 1.1 for 5 grand.
We got it to the office, followed the directions and hooked up everything and fired it up. We got to the A: prompt. There was no other software AT ALL. With DOS 1.1 there are no sub directories. and the floppies were 360K. The boss boxed it all up and took it back to the IBM salesman. In the end the IBM guys swapped it for a System 36 with a printer and an accounting software package. It had 8 inch floppies that were 1 meg each. We had to hire a programmer to tweak the software to fit our needs.
It was not until Lotus 123 came out in 1983 that we got another PC. It was a real powerhouse. A 6MHz PC-AT with 2 megs of RAM, DOS 3 and a 32 Meg hard drive. I think of that hard drive when I downloaded a recent update to my video card that was 268 MB. Just the video driver!