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CBGLuthier

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4. Yes. Microsoft predates Apple.

Reply to Downwinder (Reply #3)

Wed Nov 18, 2015, 02:08 AM

Nov 2015

The PC revolution may have gotten a little kick from the hobbyists entusiasm but I think it still would have happened even without Apple and Commodore and Sinclair and all the other companies.

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If there had been no Apple, would there have been an IBM PC or a Microsoft? Downwinder Nov 2015 #3

Yes. Microsoft predates Apple. CBGLuthier Nov 2015 #4

Apple and VisiCalc is what really moved it out of hobbyist mode. Downwinder Nov 2015 #5