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Kelli Halliburton wrote:

> > OK, but it still doesn't change the fact that IBM did fight cloning.
> >
> > Companies went out and cloned the IBM's without IBM's help or
> > permission, and suddenly everyone expects Apple to just give the
> > stuff away.
>
> Yes, because it will start a huge groundswell of Apple II clones being
> manufactured and Apple won't get a cent from this enormous new economy.

Hehehehe. Oh Kelli, how I wish this were true. While I do think there is a
small market for the Apple II (I've noticed that the elementary school that
my son last attended 6 years ago has a new Mac lab, and yet still has the
IIe, and IIGS in the classrooms - surely some new software could be sold,
somehow to schools like this), it is very unlikely without a *much* more
powerful cpu, and, of course, a full suite of office and internet products,
to start.

Roy