[Coco] Another Radio Shack Article

[Mark J. Blair]

On Jan 5, 2014, at 16:56 , Glen VanDenBiggelaar <glenvdb at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I still argue that the one thing that put the PC ahead in sales was not MS/Dos. Windows or any business applications. People really too notice of it because of one game: DOOM.
> Until then, the younger people wanted systems like the Amiga C64, and CoCo and such to play games. DOOM did not level the playing field for the PC, it annihilated it.

You may be on to something there. One of the major reasons that I upgraded from my old Sun 3/60 workstation to my first PC (a Pentium 90, when those were very mainstream and Pentium 133 machines were new and still a bit dodgy) was that my office-mate got me hooked on Doom 2. That plus the availability of Linux made the PC platform attractive to me, even though I have always loathed most Microsoft products introduced later than their 8-bit BASICs.

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Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
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