Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for April 15, 2021

Try Chinese, since that’s where most of your parts are made.

Oh – and French was better, Oliver?

When I was in business school (1980-ish) a guest lecturer came in to show us a “laptop” computer. (It was built into a rather large briefcase.) He told us if we had any spare cash, to invest in Osborne. Fortunately, I was more interested in investing in my next rent check.

Third panel-the dark side of the American Dream.

What happened to ‘Ronco’?

I had a Franklin Ace-1000— forty years ago.

RCA, Ampex, Sears …

? I don’t understand the reference to Timex and Mattel — they’re still in existence. Did they once make computers and no longer do?

In the Computer Programmer job I had before my Microcomputer Specialist job, management asked me to research and recommend a personal computer to do Spreadsheet Applications. This was just after the IBM PC came out, but they did not yet have a “presence” in, or even near, our city. For this reason alone, I chose the “Victor 9000”. Interestingly, the most use it got was employees playing the games that came with it… ☺

Aloha.

Mattel is alive and (apparently well) today although it came close to bankruptcy in ’83. Timex endures as well, surviving, among other things, making PCs (the ZX81 and ZX Spectrum) in the early ’80s (This strip is dated April ’85)

We each grieve in our own way, Oliver. Let poor Banana Jr. have his Japanese!