by Barry Brownstein Once again, in the 2021 Cato Institute rankings of personal and economic freedom, Freedom in the 50 States, New Hampshire is ranked as the freest of the United States. Canada’s Fraser Institute gives New Hampshire the same freest state ranking. The state’s famous motto, “Live Free or Die,” is prominently imprinted on residents’ license plates. When I share […]
there was a drastic mindset change in the whole country about what a computer was. and happened over a very short period of time. gather around and we ll tell you a lit bit more about the system. here at the west coast computer fair, the speed of development in this industry is so great that each fair virtually outdates the previous one. when it is lower prices that have helped the tremendous boom in home computer sales, about one home in ten will have a computer by the end of this year. by 1990, the number could be two out of three. we knew that the personal computer was getting serious when the competition started. because when you have competition, innovation gets stimulated. compaq. atari home computer. kaypro gives you the complete computer. higher resolution. great other expandability than ibm s pc. ibm s entry heated up an already volatile market. one industry innovator, osborne computer, was forced into bankruptcy court last month. and apple, the industry s
Before Microsoft and Intel dominated the PC market with a common platform, the CP/M operating system did something similar for small business machines in the late 1970s and early 1980s—until MS-DOS pulled the rug out from under it. Here’s more about CP/M, and why it lost out to MS-DOS.