Re: The Apple ][ was crap

["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.

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"Jan Vanden Bossche" <jan80@MailAndNews.com> wrote in message
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> >===== 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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> Greetings from the TyRannoSaurus
> Jan-80
>
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