Comment on Cost of a 128KB computer with floppies in 1985

Jacksachatter@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Macintosh was always Apple. Apricot may have been trying to ride on the coattails of Apple’s popularity (I remember the computers but I’m too lazy to look it up).

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  • Jacksachatter@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t recall apricot and olivetti. But the other I have vague memories especially the Macintosh one. Compaq doesn’t count as it is still existing.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Olivetti originally made typewriters (we used to have one). Never heard of Apricot.

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    • umbraroze@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Olivetti, from Italy, was pretty famous in Europe as a typewriter manufacturer. So it wasn't much of a surprise my father's first PC (and the first PC compatible I could use) was Olivetti PCS 386SX, circa 1992.

      Turns out Olivetti is surprisingly important in computer history too. Olivetti made Programma 101, which was the first programmable desk computer/calculator, way back in 1965. If NASA bought a bunch of these, I guess it was serious shit.

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      • Jacksachatter@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Thank you! This is interesting. I’d go to a Google/wikipedia/youtube rabbit hole now

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• postmateDumbass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That Apricot looks like an Apple clone.

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