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Re: Who Knew ?

From Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: Who Knew ?
Date 2021-11-01 19:27 -0400
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On Mon, 1 Nov 2021 21:40:05 +0000, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>
> On Mon, 01 Nov 2021 13:52:08 -0400
> Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> wrote:
>
>> I think the TRS-80 can also be considered a non-business computer. 
>
> 	I was working in the Cambridge Tandy store when the TRS-80 came out
> in the UK. We sold quite a number of them to small businesses, one customer
> reported that it had reduced an essential monthly task from three days of
> painstaking calculations to do a scratch job to three hours to do it
> properly.
>
> 	Later on we carried Apple ][s, PETs, North Star Horizons and all
> sorts of other machines but when the TRS-80 first appeared it put computers
> in places that would never have dreamed of them (that customer above was a
> cattle farmer - he was the first business customer which tends to stick
> in the mind).

Thanks for the info, my assumption was probably wrong.

Cannot remember I have seen one in the stores back in the day. OK, was a
small German town with only three stores carrying computers. They had
Commodore 64 as of 1983, Atari 8-bit and later ZX Spectrums ad
Amstrads. The TRS-80 was probably so outdated I never saw it. But neither
the CoCo not other models in later years. Doesn't mean it wasn't
available in my country in the late 70s.
-- 
Andreas

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Re: Who Knew ? Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2021-11-01 13:52 -0400
  Re: Who Knew ? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-11-01 21:40 +0000
    Re: Who Knew ? Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2021-11-01 19:27 -0400
      Re: Who Knew ? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-11-02 05:19 +0000
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    Re: Who Knew ? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-11-04 19:09 +0000
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