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Re: The Apple ][ was crap
- Subject: Re: The Apple ][ was crap
- From: "william strutts" <wrstrutts1@home.com>
- Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 21:01:40 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster
- References: <241b6b553d85818c6a3dbb20e06f087d@freemail.cotse.com>
- Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.sys.apple2:10226
<penman-no-spam@cotse.com> wrote in message
news:241b6b553d85818c6a3dbb20e06f087d@freemail.cotse.com...
> One of the reasons the C64 sold better in my area, at least, was
> distribution: Apple II's could only be sold by Apple dealers,
> while the C64 was carried by several different general retailers.
> I always felt that Apple kept shooting itself in the foot by
> limiting distribution, as well as not licencing out the computer
> ROMs.
>
> FWIW: The C64 disk drive used a 6502 processor chip in it to
> allow it to work. So, I used to kid my C64 friends that they needed
> an Apple II to run their computers. :)
>
> Also, did QuantumLink predate the AppleLink setup?
>
They were part of Quantum networks. They might
have coexisted. Quantum later launched AOL as a
Macintosh service. I was one of AOL's first customers
using a Mac Plus.
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