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The article directly addresses the issue of price. I think it's really that most people weren't too interested in computers at the time. Even if you would get a
by jsprogrammer 12y ago
The article directly addresses the issue of price. I think it's really that most people weren't too interested in computers at the time. Even if you would get a laptop for $5 and everyone could have one, most people probably still wouldn't have regularly used one.
- uberalex 12y agoPrice is huge. 7,000 for something that doesn't even run the same software? And weighs 5+ kg? They did to some extent have that $5 option in in the form Of a few floppies in a brief case as the article points out.
- ghaff 12y agoIt wasn't so much that people didn't use PCs in the mid-80s--though they were by no means universal. But they weren't necessarily useful traveling. Email, especially outside of walled-garden company systems, was relatively uncommon so having a computer on the road wasn't a big win. I got an MBA in the mid-80s and PCs were absolutely used universally although typically in the computer lab. I had a personal one but I was in the minority. When I went to work afterwards, we exclusively used a minicomputer based system for a number of years.