Re: Apple ][ identification (follow up)

[Roger Johnstone <roger@roger.geek.nz.removethisbit>]

In <1176436600.984872.290180@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> N.N. Thayer 
wrote:
> On Apr 12, 3:50 pm, "Sean Fahey" <sean.fa...@a2central.com.remove-mpr-
> this> wrote:
> 
>> Wow, thats going back when there were so few home computer users in 
>> general, we hadn't gotten to the "my computer is better than your POS 
>> Tandy" phase yet.
> 
> Hehe, it sure didn't take us long though:
> 
> http://www.textfiles.com/bbs/PRINTOUTS/198503general.txt
> 
> Textfiles dates this log at March 1985.  Apparently, Apple had just
> closed a few manufacturing plants, and IBM had dropped the PCjr.  The
> off-the-cuff predictions were as hilariously brainless as anything
> you'd see today.  The only one close to being on-target was a warning
> to not count IBM out of the home computer market quite yet; we're all
> inheritors of their legacy, even Mac users since the Intel switch.
> 
> (And of course only one of the companies mentioned in those messages
> is actually still making computers today.)  ;)

Hey, IBM still makes computers. Just not PCs anymore.

My favourite comment from the BBS log: "Why are there so many losers on 
BBS's these days??"

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