Re: check out these industrial strength apple II's

[uablyfl@uab.ericsson.se (Lyndon Fletcher)]

On 03 Sep 2001 14:30:24 +0200, Raymond Wiker <Raymond.Wiker@fast.no>
wrote:

>uablyfl@uab.ericsson.se (Lyndon Fletcher) writes:
>
>> On Sat, 01 Sep 2001 04:18:56 GMT, "Ernest" <ernestls@home.com> wrote:
>>  I don't think that England has a single a2 clone on the entire
>> >island, 
>> 
>> There was an ITT clone of the IIe marketed in the UK for many years

>        ITT may have cloned the IIe. They certainly sold something
>called the ITT 2020; ISTR that this was a licenced copy of the II+
>(EuroPlus?). 

Yes, that could be the one. I looked into it briefly back in (I think)
1982 or so when I was about to do a programming course at a local
tech. In the end I simply couldn't afford one, I think they were
nearly �800 by the time that you had bought enough to make a
reasonable computer. I got a VIC20 to learn Basic on and saved for a
BBC.

Of the US manufacturers in the UK I think Commodore did the best,
probably because their prices were reasonable. I know my local school
district standardised on PETs as early as '78 or so and C= only lost
it's footing when the BBC micro became the defacto schools computer in
the early 1980's. 

Of the people I knew four or five had Commodores, two had 8bit
Atari's, one had a TI99/4A, a couple had BBC's and the vast majority
had Spectrums or ZX81's. I think I saw my first A2 of any type in or
around 1989 at a computer auction (it didnt sell) where as I was
playing with  Macs  from 1985 onwards.

I've read in this group a fair degree of resentment about Apple's
orphaning of the A2 platform. I get the impression that this was a
seriously big deal in the US but for the rest of the world where A2
penetration was slight, the Mac seriously openned up Apple's market.
In the years up to 1990 I know that I actually saw more Lisa's than I
did A2's.

Lyndon




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>Raymond Wiker
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