RE: The Apple ][ was cool!

[Jan Vanden Bossche <jan80@MailAndNews.com>]

>===== Original Message From russotto@user138.dsli.com (Matthew Russotto) 
=====
>>
>>They tried to market the PowerMac as the first home RISC-based machine -
>>conveniently forgetting that Acorn had beaten them by nearly 7 years...
>
>Since aside from the two Acorn users (you and Graham Nelson), few
>had heard of it, they got away with that one.

Nope. I am neither an Acorn  Archimedes nor an Apple Mac user, but that was 
a 
straight LIE from Apple, when they claimed that in the press. I wrote to a 
professional magazine running that ad complaining about it.

>(OK, maybe there were more than two.  But not many more than two)

At least 3. And the editor of the magazine agreed with me.

>Matthew T. Russotto                                russotto@pond.com

Jan.















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Greetings from the TyRannoSaurus
Jan-80

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