PC March Through Time - Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Editor, Linux & Open Source

 
 
By eweek  |  Posted 2012-05-28 Email Print this article Print
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

June 4 marks the 30th anniversary of the release of the Apple II, one of the 1977 trinity (also including the TRS-80 and the Commodore PET) that started the PC revolution. In honor of this auspicious event, eWEEK staff got together to recount their first&

 
 
 
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Then: I used a Kaypro 2: 25-plus pounds of portable computing power with a massive 64K of RAM and two (two!) 360K floppy drives. All of this was powered up by a blazingly fast 4MHz Z80 chip running CP/M-80. In its day, it was a

PC March Through Time - Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Editor, Linux & Open Source
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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