Re: Apple vs C64

[blakjak@panix.com (N. A. M. Zis)]

In <120200@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt2011a@prism.gatech.EDU (gt2011a Sheldon Simms) writes:

>In article <mnementhCFpFLy.25r@netcom.com> mnementh@netcom.com (David R. Villegas) writes:
>>Four your information, there's a discussion about whether or not Apples
>>were better than Commodore 64s on alt.folklore.computers.  The Apples seem
>>to be losing.  Anyone wanna help rememdy this situation?  ;-)

>Alas I have no access to that group. I assume we're talking about 8-bit
>Apples. Well, the C64 has better graphics and sound, but the Apple II wins
>big when you consider it's biggest virtue: slots. I don't keep up with
>C64 technology, but I doubt there's any C64's with SCSI Ports, or 1.4Meg
>floppy disks, or 2.5Megs of RAM, etc. And I've never seen an Apple II with
>a serial disk drive either.

I was a Commie (please, let me explain! :D) once...
Suprisingly, I saw an issue of Run (the C64/128 mag) a few months ago -
and of course still featuring articles on GEOS (heh).
Last I remember someone had hacked a way to make 4 expasion ports instead
of the one pseudoRS232... And there were 4mHz accelerators, and SCSI
drives (sort of - the drive had a SCSI mode, but there was special
firmware to be used on the C=), and the infamous (but discontinued) 3.5"
drive made by CBM.
Too bad it didn't have a real OS.

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