Re: August 1988 Issue of inCider magazine....

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

rubywand@swbell.net wrote:

>     Maybe. "Mark Twain" was, after all, a turkey at the time of its
>construction. It is difficult to believe that the machine was a genuine
>Apple effort.
>
>     Some day, the company may officially admit that MT was a serious Apple,
>Inc. GS development attempt. For now, we have plenty of interesting rumors,
>all sorts of claims, and a computer which looks more like a club project
>which turned into a hoax.

    A hoax, right. Joe Kohn and Tony Diaz made the whole thing up,
building a complex motherboard revision of the Apple IIgs in their
spare time, just to stir things up in the Apple II world. In fact,
they must have also come up with a time-travel device too, since
_someone_ must have been planting prototypes of the Mark Twain to
various developers in the year 1990 (that explains how I knew about
most of the feature of the Mark Twain years before I even knew who
Joe or Tony were).

[sarcasm mode off]

    I don't understand you, you honestly believe the Mark Twain
is some fabricated myth that is completely implausiable, yet at
the same time, seem to believe Apple is secretly building a new
line of Apple II computers (to replace the Macintosh) to make
the company profitable again. No offense, but you seem to be
mixing up fantasy and reality here.

    Seriously, the Mark Twain is real. The case may just be an
original Apple IIgs case that Apple engineerings hacked a few
cut-out openings into it, but the internal parts that make up the
computer were the beginnings of a new IIgs _Apple Computer_ was
planning to finish and release. It does not take a expert to
see the motherboard was not some homebrewed project someone in
their basement hacked together!

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca