Re: Apple 2c and 2cx

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <5nmmbb$mo6$1@darla.visi.com>, Nathan Mates <nathan@visi.com> wrote:
>In article <339EAFB6.3F54@levi.urova.fi>,  <tvuoltee@levi.urova.fi> wrote:
>>What is the difference between the Apple 2c and the 2cx
>
>   For starters, there is no Apple IIcx; I believe you may be
>mistaking it with the "IIcx"-- a computer in the Mac lineup. [Entirely
>different systems altogether in terms of design, applicability,
>usefulness and marketing. Blame Apple's marketing for whitewashing
>Apple's non-Mac past from the public's consciousness]

I guess Apple is as much to blame for new computer shoppers not knowing
about Apple IIs as Chevrolet is to blame if people walking into a showroom
for the first time don't know about Corvairs, Novas, and Chevelles. I don't
get why you'd criticize a company for not touting what it used to sell but
no longer sells. Although I saw a quicktime movie from Apple which came out
with the Powermac rollout, and it showed stuff like an Apple I, IIs of all
flavors, even Apple III stuff. So even saying that they don't tout their old
products doesn't hold water.

It also seems like most of the misposts of Mac questions here and not knowing
the difference between Apple II and Mac II is coming from other countries.
Is it places where Apple IIs were never sold or something like that? If so,
they have a good excuse for not knowing.

But back to the original question: a //c is a portable II and a IIcx is a
Mac II in the compact style case with three nubus slots and a 16 mHz '030.
As of January, it's as well supported at a //c, since it was left behind
with the OS 7.6 introduction.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
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