> On December 26, 2004 Mike Miller wrote: > > > > > > > Here's the article... > > > > http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Time.MOTY.1982.html > > > > I have no time to read it now, but wasn't 1982 the year that the IBM > > PC was introduced? The IBM PC must have had a lot of influence on the > > decision, but the article seems to be about computers in general. > > > > For this year, Time's Man is GWB and in 1938 the Man was Adolf Hitler. > > > > Mike > > > Quoting a paragraph in the article (very interesting read). > > "There is much talk of a coming shakeout, and California Consultant > David E. Gold predicts that perhaps no more than a dozen vendors will > survive the next five years. At the moment, Dataquest estimates that > Texas Instruments leads the low-price parade with a 35% share of the > market in computers selling for less than $1,000. Next come Timex (26%), > Commodore (15%) and Atari (13%). In the race among machines priced > between $1,000 and $5,000, Apple still commands 26% followed by IBM (17% > and Tandy/Radio Shack (10%). But IBM, which has dominated the mainframe > computer market for decades, is coming on very strong. Apple, fighting > back, will unveil its new Lisa model in January, putting great emphasis > on user friendliness. The user will be able to carry out many functions > simply by pointing to a picture of what he wants done rather than typing > instructions. IBM is also reported to be planning to introduce new > machines in 1983, as are Osborne and others." > > About 1978 can remember one of my son's bringing home a sheet of > Teletype paper where he had "conversed" with a computer at the collage > in Mankato. He was in about 5th grade I think and was allowed to use > the computer as he had good grades. The elementary school was also > located in Mankato. I had a Teletype machine that was used on the > amateur radio bands "RTTY", and he asked me if I could connect to the > collage computer from my Teletype machine. Still do some "RTTY" but the > computer has taken the place of the old Teletype Model 15 machine. > > Jerry W > In 1969-70 at Marshall-University High School, next to Dinkytown, they had a teletype (with paper-punch-tape read/write) that students could use to write and run BASIC or FORTRAN programs (using timeshare on a Honeywell? or maybe a U of M? mainframe.) We did things like simple mortgage tables with BASIC, and the like, for extra credit in 8th grade math. 1969 was my first exposure to computing. --Randy P.S. Re: TIME MAGAZINE: ------------------------------------------- TIME MAGAZINE: Man/Machine/Person(s) of the Year Winners ------------------------------------------- 1927 Charles Augustus Lindbergh 1928 Walter P. Chrysler 1929 Owen D. 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