Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

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?

: understood that the Mac wasnt making zillions of money from the start.
: The II was a machine that sold well until the end.

Apple's sales figures given for a one month period to the Operation Apple 
Storm panel were exactly seven IIgs and seven //e systems sold nationwide.
At that rate you'd have 84 units per year. Not "selling well" by my figuring.
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