Re: Your first A2.

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Tom Zuchowski wrote:

>The Apple /// certainly seems to have had a few quirks, but I always
>understood that its failure in the marketplace was due mainly to the 100%
>failure rate of the early production resulting from Apple's use of cheap
>chip sockets (a problem they solved very neatly in the //e by doing away
>with most of them.) I know that one "repair" method for the /// was to drop
>it six inches onto a hard surface to jar the chip seating. By the time Apple
>saw the duboius wisdom of saving a few bucks in sockets, the word was out
>that the /// was a dog.

Hence my observation that the personality of the Apple /// was "capricious".

I know that the /// has its loyalists, but in the market you don't get second
chances, and the market's voice was loud and clear on the Apple ///.

-michael

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