So my last post, my dad found his 3rd computer… he finally found his first computer!
Bonus: Back of the receipt has some additional purchases: https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/8ed5e2cb-3a29-4a8d-9f0f-347cc41771f2.jpeg
So my last post, my dad found his 3rd computer… he finally found his first computer!
Bonus: Back of the receipt has some additional purchases: https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/8ed5e2cb-3a29-4a8d-9f0f-347cc41771f2.jpeg
Cardiff Electric in the show was an amalgam of a bunch of '70s and '80s computer industry lore, from Apple getting their hands on their first 6502 CPUs from a barrel at a trade show, to Compaq clean-room reversing the IBM PC BIOS, and Commodore’s Jack Tramiel being misled by a Tandy exec that laptops were a dead end business.