TRS-80 Model 1 (was: Arty computers (was: Re: PDP-11/70 in Yates Center, KS)

[William Donzelli]

>     Both the Apple and Commodore were hardly flops.  They did what they
> were designed to do, and made a bunch of money for their respective
> owners.

I remember seeing an ad for Apple 2e, with the thrust being that it
could be used as a CAD machine. Yeah right. Even as a kid I saw that
it just did not have the horsepower and graphics to be usable. In this
sense, the Apple 2 line flopped big time. At least they probably did
not spend a whole lot of money on that aspect of marketting.

And, just to beat the beehive a little with the definition of flop -
note how many people and webpages refer to the IBM PS/2 line as a
flop. For a flop, they sure made a bundle of dough from them...

--
Will