On Mon, 7 Jan 2013, Kevin wrote:
The fact that it cost quite a bit (and didn't really offer that much more) meant that it probably stayed in the hands of the "professionals".Pretty much all Apple III software was really good and disciplined about goingthrough the driver interface, so confidence is high.not to go off topic, but I find the mentality around that to be interesting, the Apple II is generally considered a home/edu/small business computer, and there are hacks n kludges galore (and dont get me wrong we are much better for it).the /// was marketed as a serious business computer, and generally everyone behaved themselves
Yes, I know that it did some neat things that the Apple II didn't, but you could get expansion memory boards for the II, you could do 80 columns on the II and since you had such a larger base of users (and thus a wider variety of hardware additions), there was little incentive to pay the premium for the III.
Since that kept it within certain circles, you would't see people making mistakes or trying to make it do something it shouldn't.
Michael