From: "Geo" 

"Dave"  wrote in message
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> | They threw gas on a fire that was already
> | burning when they released the PC, and the killer business app,
visicalc,
> | came from the ][.
>
> How long after the introduction of the PC before the first version of
> Lotus 1-2-3?  That was the killer business app.

1969 nls demo (mouse and the gui, network, video over a network) both jobs
and gates saw this demo

1976 Apple released the Apple 1, cray released the cray-1 1977 January 3,
apple computer is created early spring releases the Apple ][. Microsoft is
founded. Fiberoptic cable is used for the first time. 1978 Visicalc
released. Intel's 8086 is created. Wordstar and visicalc are created
1979 Apple ][+ released
1980 dbase is created. Osborne 1 released. December apple sells 4.6 million
shares at $22per, they already have 1000 employees. 1981 IBM PC released in
august
1982 first IBM PC clone released. Autodesk is founded. Postscript is
invented. Compaq releases a PC clone. LOTUS 123 released. 1983 PC-XT
invented. The internet goes tcp/ip.

there is a really good pdf file timeline at
http://www.computer.org/computer/timeline/timeline.pdf

Geo.

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