Re: The Apple ][ wasn't crap!

[Fortran <fortrandragon@hotmail.com>]

My glass typewriter shows Jeff Thomas pondering...
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> If I must chose a contender for the worse computer of the 1980s, it
> would be the �IBM PC�. Reason�s being: poor graphics (Hercules
> [2-colours B&W], 

	You are confusing color with graphics.  :)  The Hercules monochrome 
graphics card was a decent graphics card for its time.

> CGA (the best available by 1987, 4-colours]).

	EGA was available in 1984.  16 colors, 640x350.  By 1987 VGA was 
around.

>  Awful
> Sound, internal speaker worse than an Apple II (Sound cards, never took
> off till the early 1990s starting with �Adlib�).

	That would be the late '80s when Sierra Online started pushing the 
Adlib and Roland MT-32.

> A rugged metal case
> (weighing a ton) - taking up lots of desk space. Noisy power supplies
> with fans.

	Yep.  They were boat anchors.  :)

> Clones were �unreliable� and �incompatible�. The first
> software written were knock-offs of Apple II software.

	Within a year or so new software was being written (for example, 
Lotus 1-2-3).

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