Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes, odd isn't it! I'm so used to saying Mac these days, forgetting that in those years one used the term Apple. Slobodan Dimitrov On Mar 19, 2007, at 7:29 PM, Marc James Small wrote: > At 10:00 PM 3/19/2007, Slobodan Dimitrov wrote: > >Oh, those! A friend of mine had one, or a model similar to it, from > >Radio Shack. He was trying to write his thesis with it. Every time a > >voltage hick-up occurred, he would loose everything he wrote. We > >stayed away from him that summer. In retaliation, he managed to > >switch the english department from PC to Macs. > > That's odd, Slobodan. The Trash-80's ran of Digital Research > software, well before Gates came out with Microsoft. Radio Shack > was one of the last major computer companies to shift over to the > PC system. And Macs were still three or four years in the future > at that time, though he might have convinced his department to > hamper its folks by using the early Apple computers. > > Marc > > > msmall@aya.yale.edu > Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information