> technically-savvy small businesses were buying Apples and PC's The outfit I worked for at the time sold directly into this area. We had a product line of sim

> technically-savvy small businesses were buying Apples and PC's The outfit I worked for at the time sold directly into this area. We had a product line of simple I/O modules for physical automation (measuring temperatures, controlling motors, etc...) and all our programming instructions and examples were given in BASIC because it was on all computers and it was the one language that we knew everyone would be familiar with.