[Elecraft] Elecraft's linux utilities - somewhat OT, or maybe not

[Jim Rogers]

Actually Don, the Apple II preceded the IBM PC and had a very strong 
following. As the owner of a consulting firm that placed some Apple IIs 
doing some difficult, at that time, interfacing to main frames we 
welcomed the appearance of the IBM PC when it came on the scene. We had 
the second IBM PC in Birmingham and after a couple of days of evaluation 
recompiled our software and the rest was history.

73s Jim, W4ATK
On 5/27/2014 9:31 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
> And those computers Tom Watson was speaking of took a large controlled 
> environment room just for the various pieces.  It was certainly not a 
> desktop computer.
> Desktop computers did not come into being until the advent of the IBM 
> PC in the 1980s.  I bought my daughter a new IBM PC with 2 floppy 
> drives and 64k of ram for her to use in her college classes. It was 
> later upgraded with a 5 MB hard drive which replaced one of the floppy 
> drives (3.5 inch floppys).
>
> We have come a long way since that time.  That system cost $2500 at 
> the time, now I can buy a computer with a LOT more capability for less 
> than $300.
>
> 73,
> Don W3FPR
>
> On 5/27/2014 9:43 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:
>> At sometime in the 50's, the President of IBM is alleged to have 
>> said, "The worldwide market for computers is probably about twelve." 
>> Apparently he didn't know Doug.
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Fred K6DGW
>> - Northern California Contest Club
>> - CU in the 2014 Cal QSO Party 4-5 Oct 2014
>> - www.cqp.org
>>
>> On 5/27/2014 1:29 PM, Doug Person via Elecraft wrote:
>>
>>> I probably have 15 working computers.
>>
>
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