RE: The Apple ][ was crap

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

>===== Original Message From "william strutts" <wrstrutts1@home.com> =====
>The TRS-80 announced Aug 5, 1977 and didn't appear
>in quantity to Dec of 1977 or eary 1978.
>

October/November. Definitely. We just had a thread about that in CST.

At least, when the TRS-80 was announced, they had a production line of 3000 
machines running.

When the Apple II was introduced at the Computer Fair in SF in May of that 
same year, how many existed ? You know ?

Just 4 ! The cases were fresh out of the injection mould 2 days before.

Source: "Hackers", by Steven Levy.

>William R. Strutts - wrstrutts1@home.com - Whatever!

Jan

>> The Commodore PET and the TRS-80 (model I) were the competitors.

Because their production wasn't stepped up as fast as Tandy's. 55.000 sold 
in 
one year. Apple didn't match that, Commodore certainly didn't, with their 
keyboard without a '.'

Greetings from the TyRannoSaurus
Jan-80

Mail me direct at JAN80@no.spam.PI.BE (remove 'no.spam.')
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