sospiri
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
The first proper personal computers all came out in America in the same year, 1977, and were the Apple ][, Coomodore Pet, and the TRS 80 and were probably starting to appear in the UK in 1979/80. I worked for TABS supporting the first proper accounting package on the Apple ][ personal computer. Games were few and far between and one of the first on the Apple machine was Cat & Mouse, written by one of our own staff and had a continuous background theme of a piece of Bach-like music, again written by the same man, though it was very basic.
I joined them in July 1982 and the first IBM PC, built to operate on 110 volt supply with a step up transformer - forever failing, appeared in late 1982. Early in 1983 I was involved in porting the Apple accounting software onto the IBM PC, first under the CP/M operating system and shortly afterwards the first MS-DOS operating system, we ported it again under MS-DOS and abandoned the CP/M system.
Maximum memory on the Apple ][ was 48K and the disks were 5 & 1/4 " floppies holding a mere 140 K. An external hard disk holding a mere 10 Mb appeared in late 1984. So I think Eric's post #266 could at the earliest have applied to 1979, but was more likely the early 1980s.
Maurice
I joined them in July 1982 and the first IBM PC, built to operate on 110 volt supply with a step up transformer - forever failing, appeared in late 1982. Early in 1983 I was involved in porting the Apple accounting software onto the IBM PC, first under the CP/M operating system and shortly afterwards the first MS-DOS operating system, we ported it again under MS-DOS and abandoned the CP/M system.
Maximum memory on the Apple ][ was 48K and the disks were 5 & 1/4 " floppies holding a mere 140 K. An external hard disk holding a mere 10 Mb appeared in late 1984. So I think Eric's post #266 could at the earliest have applied to 1979, but was more likely the early 1980s.
Maurice