Re: Most overhyped Apple

[jcompton@typhoon.xnet.com (Jason Compton)]

KFergason (kfergason@aol.com) wrote:
: In article <542538123-970611084100@rook.wa.com>, brian.hammack@rook.wa.com
: (Brian Hammack) writes:
: 
: >This is tangental, but...  The most overhyped thing I can think of was
: >the Spartan doodad by Mimic, which turned a Commodore 64 into an Apple
: >][+.  (holding December 1984 issue of _RUN_, p.82 for reference)  I've
: 
: Thats funny.  I'm an old C64 user, with some Apple IIgs experience,
: and that was the first thing I thought of.  I never heard that it actually
: shipped.

I've heard that it did, it was just silly because it was basically a
rebuilt Apple II+ which used the 64 for video out, keyboard, and power at
a vastly inflated price.

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