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From: lpress at csudh.edu (Larry Press)
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 16:49:01 +0000
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John Day wrote:

> I am sure there are other early examples of ?PC-like? things. 

The LINC and LGP-30 were "PC-like" -- personal, but not desktop.

When I was a student, you could reserve 15-minute "happy time" shots on Sundays when you operated a 7090 yourself. I guess it was PC-like for those 15 minutes :-).

The first time I touched a timesharing system (QUICKTRAN) felt totally personal.

My first desktop PC was an S-100 CP/M computer with 8" floppies -- you could own your own tools.

Larry

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