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



mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 28, 3:13 pm, Michael J. Mahon <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> 
>> Read the article again. It's quite clear that the sales rates were
>> determined, not by the capabilities or quality of the computers, but almost
>> solely by whether it was running an interactive demo.
> 
> Agreed, but it shouldn't be discounted that the Apple IIc demo
> included AppleWorks :-)

Good point!  ;-)

Appleworks sold more Apple II's than even VisiCalc. 

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