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From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
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Subject: Re: What is the All-Time Best-Selling Computer ?
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karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
> it has to have a typewriter-style keyboard, a CRT display capability and a
> mass storage device.

	Just to be picky, I think you probably mean "electronic bitmap
display" or something like that instead of CRT.  Mac Portables don't have
CRTs, neither do most portables/laptops; they all have some sort of LCD,
electroluminescent, etc, display.

	Do you consider something like a HP-48sx to be a personal computer?
Depending on how far you want to stretch "typewriter-like keyboard", it
might just qualify; it's not terribly convenient, but you can generate the
whole ASCII alphabet, plus greek and math symbols.  It has a bitmap LCD
display, albeit a small one, and the self-powered ram cards could arguably
be called floppy disks since they can be used as removable mass storage.
The programming power is certainly greater than many conventional personal
computers (VIC-20, PET, etc).
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