Re: Apple II info please...

[Joseph Lee <nugundam+NOUBE@netcom.com>]

Jeff Lemke <lemke@terra.cira.colostate.edu> spawned virtual particles writing:
[huge quote Jeff's editor couldn't delete]
: Your assessment of the Macs was true up to about 1987 or so, around when
: the Mac II was released.  The Mac II-series, Mac Quadras, and Power Macs
: were and are quite expandable and accessible.  And in general, Macs are
: not so much "yuppie machines" as they are A/V (desktop video) and

I believe the Macs changed because first Jobs was out, and his entire
idea of an appliance "Macs don't need fans" machine with him.

Second, the PC market had been historically an open architecture creature,
and the new "expandable and accessible" Macs needed to be so to compete
effectively with the PCs in  similar terms, besides being an old homebrew
tradition.
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