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Re: How Apple beat IBM in Steve Jobs' first retail war (Apple //c vs IBM PCjr)
- Subject: Re: How Apple beat IBM in Steve Jobs' first retail war (Apple //c vs IBM PCjr)
- From: Kevin Dady <kevin@hackaday.com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 16:35:01 -0800 (PST)
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On Nov 27, 2:21 pm, Greg Buchner <n...@none.invalid> wrote:
> This was a good read about Christmas 1984 sales:
>
> > <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/25/charles_eicher_christmas_1984/>
>
> Greg B.
>
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> Actual e-mail address is gregbuchner and I'm located at gmail.com
yea I read that as apple defeated a computer that was already a total
stinker and had nothing but bad press at the time while trying to come
back for a second round, its not quite as glorious when said that way
=)