[geeks] Microsoft Surface...

Phil Stracchino phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net
Tue Jun 5 10:53:13 CDT 2007


Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 06:33:50PM +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 11:26:18AM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>>
>>> Dude... come on, we are talking about 1976 onward.
>>>
>>> The Mac and Lisa were not even in anyone's head yet.
>> Neither was the IBM PC at that time.
> 
> Following on my own comment does anyone remember the IBM desktop
> computer they sold around that time? I don't think it was microprocessor
> based, had tape storage and ran some offbeat languange, I think APL.

APL seems unlikely.  PL/1, perhaps?

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