Re: Internet

Posted by JRSutton on January 05, 2016 at 05:53:33 from (71.184.82.47):

In Reply to: Re: Internet posted by Ian Beale on January 04, 2016 at 20:37:37:

Ha, the 8 inch floppy drives. I remember them. And the cassette tapes - ugh.

I do realize there was plenty of life before the XT!! - didn't mean to just gloss over it, but I do think the XT was really the first product to come out that could take off in the business world, making a desktop computer a must-have machine.

There are of course many devices that led up to its development, and it wasn't much more than a re-packaging of existing technology. But they built it right, marketed it right, and priced it right.

The IBM name made it a serious device (as opposed to Apple).

You probably remember the saying in the old days in IS departments (before they were called IT) "nobody ever lost their job for buying IBM". That mindset certainly carried into the new "desktop" world that was being born through the 70's.

The open expansion card concept positioned it perfectly for other product developers to start building products to work with it - clinching it as a defacto industry standard.

DOS was an operating system that was fairly easy to pick up. Techy, but not too bad.

IBM was in the right place at the right time with the right product.

So to me (just opinion) I do consider the IBM pc (specifically the XT) the start of the desktop revolution. With full respect to those that made it possible! :)

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