On December 26, 2004 Mike Miller wrote: > > > Here's the article... > > http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Time.MOTY.1982.html > > I have no time to read it now, but wasn't 1982 the year that the IBM > PC was introduced? The IBM PC must have had a lot of influence on the > decision, but the article seems to be about computers in general. > > For this year, Time's Man is GWB and in 1938 the Man was Adolf Hitler. > > Mike > Quoting a paragraph in the article (very interesting read). "There is much talk of a coming shakeout, and California Consultant David E. Gold predicts that perhaps no more than a dozen vendors will survive the next five years. At the moment, Dataquest estimates that Texas Instruments leads the low-price parade with a 35% share of the market in computers selling for less than $1,000. Next come Timex (26%), Commodore (15%) and Atari (13%). In the race among machines priced between $1,000 and $5,000, Apple still commands 26% followed by IBM (17% and Tandy/Radio Shack (10%). But IBM, which has dominated the mainframe computer market for decades, is coming on very strong. Apple, fighting back, will unveil its new Lisa model in January, putting great emphasis on user friendliness. The user will be able to carry out many functions simply by pointing to a picture of what he wants done rather than typing instructions. IBM is also reported to be planning to introduce new machines in 1983, as are Osborne and others." About 1978 can remember one of my son's bringing home a sheet of Teletype paper where he had "conversed" with a computer at the collage in Mankato. He was in about 5th grade I think and was allowed to use the computer as he had good grades. The elementary school was also located in Mankato. I had a Teletype machine that was used on the amateur radio bands "RTTY", and he asked me if I could connect to the collage computer from my Teletype machine. Still do some "RTTY" but the computer has taken the place of the old Teletype Model 15 machine. Jerry W _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list