smart phones

[RogerS]

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Usual story I suppose big companies must have so much good stuff waiting to be released to us but they drip feed it to us :lol:

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That brought back memories. Remember the first Apple? The Apple II ? Pretty good for it's time but fairly basic screen display...so fit an 80 column card. Hard drive? That's a separate box. Keyboard rudimentary. Try moving it all about needed lots and lots of hands to carry it all without disconnecting. So me and a mate started up a small company that ripped out the guts of an Apple II, stuck it in a Peerless foam moulding case, better keyboard, CP/M, built-in hard drive etc and so turned it into what is essentially today's PC. Apple didn't lose any money as we were buying in Apple II's but they still didn't like it and we got hit with a cease-and-desist. Six months later out came the first Mac-in-a-box! Hey-ho.

 

[Steve Maskery]

Remember the first Apple? The Apple II ?

Er...
Am I missing something?

S

 

[Tarkin]

Remember the first Apple? The Apple II ?

Er...
Am I missing something?

S

To be fair, there were only 200 Apple-I computers ever made. One sold recently at auction, for not much more than a modern Mac Pro costs

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11825954

 

[Lord Nibbo]

Don't buy a Blackberry, watch THIS