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Originally Posted by ca2l3vin
This one had me ROFLMAO
The original Macintosh, the first commercially successful personal computer to use images, rather than text, to interface with the user (via Wikipedia/General computer knowledge)
Microsoft used the idea of "Windows" and Marketed it into nearly every home in america...they became so big that they didnt even need to "market" as much as they used to anymore..infact it hasnt been until Apple started taking some market back that we even her Microsoft shoot out commercials and its "Im a PC" compaign....if it wasnt for Apple and the Mac we would be stuck on lines of codes for all of our pc's...again disrespectful.... |
I've had computers since 1982, I had software on the market in the early days (for the Commodore 64), and gave up on the whole business, because of planned obsolescense, and the fact that you had to keep learning exponentially, rather than than incrementally, all of your career.
Anyone that was there when the first Windows was released knows that, compared to DOS, it dragged that same fast DOS computer down horribly, and forced the endless hardware upgrading. I could, and should, write a book.
It wasn't the marketing that cost Apple, Jobs and Woz were heros everywhere, especially in schools. It was the open architechure of the PC. I also sold the first brand of PC clone, the Columbia.
Anyone remember that one?