David Chiu wrote:
Apparently enough of a "threat" that compelled Apple to seek out ZIP for the //c+
I had a hard time understanding the why of the IIc+. They spent a lot of money and time designing the IIc+ when they could easily have made a IIgs motherboard without the slots in almost no development time. They likely could have upped the speed to 4 mhz easily enough. Building in a SCSI card would have been easy. Then they would have had something to get the Apple II community talkingand without using hardly any resources. The only thing that really makes sense is the story of the IIc+ that they just decided to build a model of the IIc with a 3.5" drive and as an afterthought added a built-in ZipChip. Wayne