On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:26:24 +0000, Larry wrote:

Bruce In Bangkok wrote in
:

Funny. Back in the days when MS was known for making the Z-80 card so
you could plug one in and run CP/M software they were good guys. We
ran the whole company on Apple ]['s and Z-80 cards at one time.



In the days before the PC/DOS, I used to sell Ohio Scientific computers.
Our business model had 6502, Z80 and 6800 processors you could select to
run all the software currently available on whatever OS you liked. CP/M
ran great.

But so expensive....

It was also the first commercial microcomputer with a real hard drive, a
74MB, 14" platter monster from the minicomputers of the day. 74MB was an
unheardof landscape of real fast storage. Our OS was called OS-65U and ran
an extended BASIC on the 6502 processor, the best of the three.

Then IBM decided none of the rest of us needed to be in business and that
was pretty much the end of it.....

I remember, the first year or so after IBM started making the PC
people asking me what kind of computer to but and I used to recommend
Apple "there is so much more software for them, you know?"

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)