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Glancing at an employment record it seems someone may have worked at a computer shop as far back as 1975. A friend of mine asked if computers were around back then to even have a computer shop.
True or False?
I think IBM goes waaaay back but a public sales or repair shop = ?
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The first Byte Shop opened in 1975. "The Altair 8800 is a microcomputer designed in 1974 by MITS and based on the Intel 8080 CPU. Interest grew quickly after it was featured on the cover of the January 1975 issue (published in late November 1974)[2] of Popular Electronics,..." (Wikipedia)
I was in grad school at the time, and remember the first computer shops, unfortunately outside my price range (which probably did not even hit $100)
IBM first entered the PC market in 1978-79 with the 5100/5110 series. At that time the Burroughs B-80 and Dec Rainbow were already on the market. I was with IBM at the time and started promoting those systems (average cost $18K-$25K - mostly small business systems).
In a related vein, I remember when Mosaic (predecessor to the Internet) first hit the open market -- It seems like it was 1990-1993. Prior to then, it had been highly used by universities and libraries. I was working in a strategic intelligence organization at the time.
IBM probably had computers back in the 1950's. My husband walked past a computer room at GE in 1965. NCR had computers in 1966. I am talking about business computers.
We had an ARPANET node at my U when I was in grad school. I did some text editing on it. This must have been around 77 or 78.
Mosaic was not the internet. It was the first browser connected to the world wide web. Prior to the WWW, the internet was command line driven.
My first use was in 67, using a GE 265 in time share mode, using basic to program. I could tell you about the other heavy metal I used, but I doubt it matters much.
IBM's first digital computer was the 701, vacuum tube, and launched in 1952. They had previous punched card equipment that could be programmed to do complex calculations, but not as a stored program system, so not a real computer.
"Mosaic was not the internet. It was the first browser connected to the world wide web. Prior to the WWW, the internet was command line driven."
Correct! I used Netscape browser and Mosaic prior to Microsoft jumping on the Internet bandwagon.
There was Gopher, Archie, Veronica, etc. I had Prodigy, Compuserve, and I posted on Usenet Newsgroups.
I guess Usenet is no longer used as no one supports it.
BTW, 10 years ago AOL mailed me an overdue bill for $19.95 for not paying my Internet bill from 1979!
Must've been a typo, I guess should be 1999.
Quote from a 1969 COMPUTER USAGE FUNDAMENTALS textbook, "In 1950, there were 15 computers in the United States. By 1968, there were more than 50,000. Predictions are that there will be 200,000 by 1975, and 350,000 by 1980."
"Mosaic was not the internet. It was the first browser connected to the world wide web. Prior to the WWW, the internet was command line driven."
Correct! I used Netscape browser and Mosaic prior to Microsoft jumping on the Internet bandwagon.
There was Gopher, Archie, Veronica, etc. I had Prodigy, Compuserve, and I posted on Usenet Newsgroups. I guess Usenet is no longer used as no one supports it.
BTW, 10 years ago AOL mailed me an overdue bill for $19.95 for not paying my Internet bill from 1979!
Must've been a typo, I guess should be 1999.
Paraphrasing Mark Twain, "Rumors of Usenet's demise are greatly exaggerated".
I have about about 20 Newsgroups I watch, with about 5 being very active. Of course there are many more in use.
And Usenet traffic on the 'net has been steadily increasing
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