• Dunja

    Because she is not so well trained as weather forecast people, who know exactly where to wave their hands when pointing at the virtual map. She’s just a girl trying to keep the retro scene alive. ;)

    And yes, Amiga 500 did indeed come with 2-button mouse. If you still have some, our museum could use one. As we don’t have it.

    Thanks for all the comments!

  • dimmer

    The PC XT was the first widely used business computer? I guess the Apple ][ hadn’t be thought of back then.

  • muteboy

    See also Binary Dinosaurs, possibly the largest collection in the UK, from 1972 to 1997, including an Apple Lisa, and a British Telecom Merlin:
    http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/

  • valdis

    Dimmer: “widely used”. What percent of businesses actually used an Apple II? Yes, there were a few, but it wasn’t until the XT when everybody and their pet llama got one to do their accounting.

  • dimmer

    Valdis: the Apple ][ sold computers to business in huge numbers, even before you include the massive numbers of clones sold worldwide. Prior to this, having a computer in your workspace was akin to having some Lego. Sure, Visicalc can take some credit, but the IBM PC (later XT, then AT, then PS/2 then fuck it we can’t be bothered) is just a cheap pool-poison hack.

  • Anonymous

    Why was Dunja gesturing towards an Amiga when she was talking about computers that didn’t use a mouse? Even the Commodore 64 and 128 in the background could use mice but the Amiga actually shipped with one as it was required to navigate Workbench (the GUI).

  • valdis

    Wow. C-64 is now “vintage”. What term are they using for all the weird and funky systems that came before it? Or should I just mumble something about “Back in my day, RSTS/E and you kids get off my lawn”?