Re: Your first A2.

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@home.com>]

The same can be said of the Lisa/Mac XL.  The market
spoke loud and clear that it was way overpriced in
favor of the cheaper Mac's.

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"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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> 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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