RE: The Apple ][ was crap

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

>===== Original Message From "John Oyler"  =====
>> 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.

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

>    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 Mac ? 
The iMac ?

Really open machines...

>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?

Yep. They included the complete ML listing of their BASIC too.

>Thanks,
>John

Jan






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Jan-80

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