Feelings about vintage systems

[Jules Richardson]

Brian L. Stuart wrote:
> Now some
> people might think there is some significant historical value in the
> PC per se, but I've got to say I see it just as another step on a
> road toward smaller and smaller devices that will eventually approach
> the ubiquitous computing model Xerox talked about a while back.
> I can't honestly say that I see much intellectually interesting about
> the fact that it put computers in the hands of the masses.

Well if the IBM PC hadn't turned up, surely computers would have ended up in 
the hands of the masses anyway? There were plenty of good, robust, expandable 
systems with good software support worldwide at the time - all it needed was 
for society to be ready to accept 'the computer' on a wider scale. IBM just 
happened to be in the right place at the right time, and it's unfortunate that 
they'd built a turkey :-)


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