Re: Woz's comments on Apple's handling of the II line etc.

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

"Michael Black" <et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote in message
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> And didn't they make the Apple II for everyone?  In the form of the Apple
IIE.
> Not quite the same thing, but close to it, and much more accessible than
> the Apple II.

If history had been different, the //e would be the machine the III ought to
have been, sans the nicer things the III had. Additional RAM, clock,
graphics modes - would have been nice in the stock //e.

But again, I wonder if while the the //e was still on the drawing board,
Apple Management said "Wait! We can't have our 8-bit home and educational
computer have as much RAM and business graphics that come anywhere close to
our upcoming mega-expensive Lisa project - we'd never sell any
mega-expensive Lisas! ...and what about that alternate low cost alternative
project, uh... The Mac?! What if they get it's cost down to $495 as
predicted?" (of course, the Mac would later end up costing 4x that at it's
premier, the Lisa as much as $10K)

BTW, if you haven't discovered it yet, Andy Hertzfeld has a nice web site
full of fun to read history of his experience, trials, tribulations and
insight of his time with Apple Computer, Inc. For example, I didn't know the
original Mac spec used a 6809 processor - had that actually gone through, I
doubt the Mac, or Apple would be here today.

Read it at: http://folklore.org/index.py