Re: The Apple ][ was crap

["John Oyler" <jojo4@mediaone.net>]

"Roy Miller" <millers@iliveinnetnebr.com> wrote in message
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> I know this is nothing but Troll Bait, but I'll bite anyway. First, your
history
> is all wet. The Apple II came out in 1977, what color computer did
Commodore or
> Radio Shack sell then? You guessed it... NONE. The Apple II's colors were
a
> quantum leap forward over those two. Did the C-64 have better colors?
Slightly,
> however, it didn't appear until what? 1983? Surely they could have done
much
> better in the intervening 6 years.

Roy,
    You forgot the fact that the Apple II series, for the most part, was
completely expandable. 7 slots is alot, even by today's standards. Commodore
wouldn't have a comparable computer, until the Amiga 2000 was released, and
even afterward, they continued to make unexpandable systems such as the 500,
600 and 1200. And as far as that goes, they can hardly claim credit for much
of this, it was a bought company. Throughout the history of all this, we
mostly have companies that are trying to close the box, make it so that you
can't add anything to the system, for whatever reason. The Apple II seems to
have taken the exact opposite approach, perhaps something that is only
possible when you have a person like Steve Wozniak designing it. Didn't they
even offer schematics at one point, so that the ambitious hobbyist could
build his own?


Thanks,
John

PS I think he might be referring to the Vic-20, which also had color earlier
than 1983. Even so, this is hardly a comparable machine to the Apple, and
still several years too late (1981 I think).