Fascinating article/account. A couple of light bits: > IDG didn’t have any money for Macworld, but they apparently had plenty of money for 80 Micro, which was

Fascinating article/account. A couple of light bits: > IDG didn’t have any money for Macworld, but they apparently had plenty of money for 80 Micro, which was a magazine for the Radio Shack computer. I had to admit, Steve had a point Sorry Steve, IDG knows who's going to win this race, and it isn't Apple. > “Sure, laptops are really the wave of the future. I hear this machine of Steve’s is a real loser.” Half right at least. And Radio Shack's laptop has been featured multiple times on HN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_100 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_100 >> According to Gates, "part of my nostalgia about this machine is this was the last machine where I wrote a very high percentage of the code in the product"