Re: Apple model history?

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

Paul Guertin <pg@sff.net> wrote:

>supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
>
>> CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney) wrote:
>> 
>> >By the way, I'm not sure when the Apple ]|[ came out so I'm not sure
>> >if it is in the right place.
>> 
>> The Apple III was a different line.  If you put the Apple III, then
>> you must also put the Lisa, the Macintosh, and the Newton.
>
>Is the Apple III really so different from the Apple II? I would say
>that including the Apple III is more like putting the Lisa in a
>Macintosh chronology (which is something I would do).

Normally, I would agree.  However, try talking about the
Lisa in a Mac newsgroup and what happens?  They get
all upset and refer the user to csa2.

It looks like Mac users think any Apple brand computer
without the Mac label that they consider obsolete gets
lumped with the Apple II.

It seems to me that if we get the III, they should get the
Lisa.  Otherwise, let's be fair and dump the III if they
dump the Lisa.  ;-)