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Re: How Apple beat IBM in Steve Jobs' first retail war (Apple //c vs IBM PCjr)

Subject: Re: How Apple beat IBM in Steve Jobs' first retail war (Apple //c vs IBM PCjr)
From: mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:26:03 -0800 (PST)
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On Nov 28, 3:13 pm, Michael J. Mahon <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:

> Read the article again. It's quite clear that the sales rates were
> determined, not by the capabilities or quality of the computers, but almost
> solely by whether it was running an interactive demo.

Agreed, but it shouldn't be discounted that the Apple IIc demo
included AppleWorks :-)

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