All the trash 80s I knew were the B&W ones.
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@feloneouscat yeah, those were the real business-oriented ones. Some of them ran CP/M on 8½ floppies IIRC. Models I, II, and III. One of my friends who was a couple years older ran a BBS off of his dad's Model III in 1981.
@feloneouscat mostly true because they were basically among the first ready-to-run PCs. The killer app was VisiCalc which appeared first on the Apple ][ and followed soon after on the Model I. Heady days!
The three computers that Byte magazine referred to as the "1977 Trinity" of home computing: Commodore PET 2001, Apple II, and TRS-80 Model I
@feloneouscat I had had the COCO for 4 years already and remember being jealous when my friends got an Apple ][e...
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Actually, at the time, the computer that was considered the real business computer was the Apple II. It ran the first spreadsheet and CP/M. It was considered a business computer.
I recall first working with the IBM PC when it was first released. It had almost no software. I literally had to write an editor because there were no editors for it.