Re: trying to get an Apple II GS going for fun...

[wizard@direct.ca (Astro)]

On 19 May 1999 04:56:21 GMT, supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:

>...the Mac of Jobs (closed 9" screen plus Mac in a box with little memory) 
>was dead.  

And then much later came the iMac. It bears much resemblance to the
original Mac of yore. The saving grace of the iMac is in my opinion
the USB ports. They might have tried a little better with the sound...
those little speakers stink!!! But it sure is styling. 

>[Sculley]...reinventing the Mac in the IIGS' image.  Complete
>with separate color monitor, color GUI, ADB bus, and slots.

Compare the Mac/iMac to the IIGS/G3, is there a pattern there or is it
just my overactive imagination?

It's funny how the Apple II line was so quietly successful, but the
Apple III, the Lisa and the original Mac [Jobs' projects] ended up
lacking so significantly. 

The IIGS was first to have the GUI, was it not? Before the Mac? 

P.S. I read that the Apple III was constructed in such a way that
numerous new units were DOA after shipping cause chips were falling
out off the boards!!!


Everywhere you look, it's all Science...

***Astro*** 

Vancouver, BC
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