Re: The Apple ][ was crap

["Marc Walters" <marc@classworks.com.au>]

"Biggo" <biggo@blue-win.ch> wrote in message
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> Robert van der Veeke wrote:
> >
> > And how about the people behind the Commode, what kind of
characters where
> > they?
>
> "Look, we've erm sorta constructed this erm computer or
> whatsitcalledanyway erm and erm actually it was another
[snip]
> Look, we have an Army General as our CEO, so we must be a
> great company."

Yep, that's about right for describing those clods in CBM's marketing
division.
Actually, IIRC ex-Secretary of State Alexander Haig was not CEO, but
was a director or something. Mr Irving gould (*spit*) was the CEO.

> *That* kind of characters. We Specchum(p)s think we were smart
> because we could do amazing things with a little calculator
> and its manual. Poor C64ers were left out in the cold with
> a RUN/STOP key and not much else :-)

At least CBM's CEO and his henchmen knew how to ruin a company in
style - pay yourself a US$9,000,000 salary while your company is
collapsing, hold shareholder's meeting in the Bahamas to restrict
attendance and take advantage of the ridiculously protective local
company laws to keep yourself safe from a prison sentence. Afur Daley
met his match with I.G.

Marc Walters
marc@objectconnections.com.au