Re: The Apple ][ was crap

[Biggo <biggo@blue-win.ch>]

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
erm firm who did (That was the Amiga. Ed.) but erm anyway
it's got BASIC and erm memory inside and perphiri periff
prefile perferals or something and erm you can actually do
stuff with it so buy it and start erm doing stuff with it.
You'll have to buy a erm manual to be able to erm do all
this erm wonderful stuff and erm we could have put the erm
manual into the box but this would have erm confused people.
Look, we have an Army General as our CEO, so we must be a
great company."

*That* kind of characters. We Specchums 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 :-)

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