Re: apple ii lineage?

["Sean Fahey" <a2fan@hotmail.com>]

"Paul R. Santa-Maria" <paulrsm@buckeye-express.com> wrote in message
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> You have to keep a historical perspective.
>
> The Apple II was released in August 1977.
>
> The Commordore 64 was introduced around August
> 1982, FIVE YEARS LATER.  Plus, Commodore was
> a chip manufacturer, so it could make the
> special sound and graphics chips the C64 had.
> It would only have been suprising if the C64
> did NOT have better sound and graphics than
> the Apple II.

Good post - most people forget or overlook that the Apple II was the first
personal computer to really bring color graphics into the mainstream, for
school, home and business.

I guess he could have compared the Vic-20 to a later Apple ][+. No contest
though.