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Re: The apple 2, the PC, and the clones

Subject: Re: The apple 2, the PC, and the clones
From: "Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 13:25:26 -0700
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Organization: Silicon Valley North, Inc. (http://www.svn.net)
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"Supertimer" <supertimer@aol.com> wrote
>
> The home market did not get truly inundated with PCs until
> the K6-2 was released by AMD.  Even Maximum PC
> magazine noted this.  The K6-2 made sub-$1000 PCs not
> only possible but expected and nothing has been the same
> since.
>

The K6-2 is a great chip, and I bought a lot of 'em and still use them (a
K6-2 300 is converting my record collection to mp3's as I type).  No doubt
it had an effect on the PC market, but the 486-33 did too. The home market
got really hot around the time of Windows 3.1.

Note that the end of the Apple II and big problems at Apple computer
happened at that time, around '93 as I recall.
-Paul

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