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

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

"Ruud Dingemans" <rtech@home.nl> wrote
>
> Yes, Apple could've put more technology/development in. But that would
> also mean keeping the price up, and competing with yourself, given the
> Mac. It would probably have been better/easier to integrate the GS into
> the Mac thru emulation, like the IIe card did, so that people could
> upgrade easier.
>

That's a really good point. There isn't much to a IIe card. If only they had
built that into the early Macs, and also a IIgs card in later Macs. We could
have had our cake and eaten it too! Also, if they'd made the external disk
port support 5.25" disks (like PC's support all flavors)...
-Paul