Re: How Apple beat IBM in Steve Jobs' first retail war (Apple //c vs IBM PCjr)

[Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Kevin Dady <kevin@hackaday.com> wrote:
> 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.
>> 
>> --
>> 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
> =)

But one should recall that most of the purchasers were not into computers
or the trade press, so they saw the two machines as toe-to-toe competitors
for their gift-giving dollars. 

I think the story makes a valid point quite dramatically. 

-michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon