Trailblazing graphics helped the Apple II to outsell Commodore's PET, and paved the way for an IT revolution
April 1977 saw the launch, at the first West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco, of Commodore’s Personal Electronic Transactor 2001. The PET had nearly everything: though its trapezoidal monitor...
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