Re: WANTED: Apple III info

[shack@crash.cts.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <5q-4kuU.tdon@delphi.com>, Tom O'Neill  <tdon@delphi.com> wrote:

>Just reading some old A+ and InCider mags I recently purchased and
>they make mention of the fact that the ][GS was outselling the Mac+ _and_
>the SE (combined) by December 1987...initial hardware problems had
>been straightened out and the machines had begun to flow and there
>were few waiting lists of willing buyers whoi were not able to get
>their ][GS off the shelf...and this was four years after the Mac had been
>released.

Keep in mind that a IIgs system was in the $2000 range in '87 and Mac Pluses
were around $2600 and SE's about $3400. And Mac II's were at $6000. This was
in the days of the horrible price/performance of Apple hardware. That began
to change with the Classic and LC. Now you can buy a Quadra 630 box with
8 mb and a 250 mb hard disk for roughly what a 256K IIgs box sold for in '87.
A Power Mac 8100/100 sells for what an SE sold for in '87. Once Apple got the
prices in line, Mac boxes started to move. They shipped the millionth Power
Mac in January, ten months after release.
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Randy Shackelford                                Huh huh, that was cool.
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