Re: REQUEST: Apple IIc 5.25" drive to borrow?

[schefflr@news.msus.edu (Bill Scheffler)]

Nathan Mates (nathan@visi.com) wrote:
:    If the first generation of Macs had had 5.25" drives, ProDOS disk
: reading capability, there would have been a much nicer
: transition. But, they were fighting off Steve Jobs who had a worse
: case of Bill Gates's "640K ought to be enough for everyone" desire to
: make the Macs unexpandable and 128K only. [The designers had to sneak in
: the ability to up it to 512K.]

	True, it would have made the transition to those who had wanted to
move easier.  I wonder how Apple would have turned out if Steve Jobs
hadn't done what he did...

:    Macs being compatible with A2 disks and/or programs has always been
: a johnny-come-lately, though if Apple's executives had had one more
: brain cell among them, they would have realized the value of their
: Apple II line.

	Yeah.  I think they learned their lesson though.  Look at the
treatment of 68k Macintosh owners.  They're _gradually_ dropping support
(non 32-bit capable Macs) and it gives the people using the higher powered
68k machines more time to move on instead of everyone having "unsupported"
hardware overnight.  Oh well, it's water under the bridge.  Enjoy what we
did get from them...

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