Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

["Forrest" <squitaur@net-gate.com>]

In article <6fm6ao$i2g$3@opal.southwind.net> , shack@onyx.southwind.net
(Randy Shackelford) wrote:

>Rick Hatton (hattonr@aug.com) wrote:
>
>: The company DID survive off of the Apple IIe, IIc and IIgs for a long
>: while. Revenue form those sources was used to develop the Mac and not
>: the II. The IIs coould drive a Lasewriter, but Apple was publicly
>: denying it. Jobs wanted the Mac to survive and the II to die. He never
>
>I'll need to see book, chapter, and verse on that. Apple IIs didn't support
>Laserwriters in the normal way until the IIgs and workstation card
>came out.
>There were Don Lancaster types putting hacks together to make 'em work
>before that, but do you expect Apple to officially support such a thing?

If memory serves, Frank Rose's "West of Eden" is the book.  Can't supply
chapter and verse as I borrowed it from the library, but the gist is that
the PCS engineers were going to show the IIe running the Laserwriter
at the 1985 stockholders meeting and the presentation was cancelled
at the last minute (along with just about all references to the Apple II).