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Re: 20 Years Ago Today: Apple //, Mac LC, The Future of the Apple //

Subject: Re: 20 Years Ago Today: Apple //, Mac LC, The Future of the Apple //
From: dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan)
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 18:10:09 +0000 (UTC)
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rich12345 wrote:
> On Apr 1, 11:22ï¿½am, dog_...@macgui.com (D Finnigan) wrote:
>>
>> Well, here are my thoughts on the Apple // line and the Mac LC.
>>
>> I saw a Mac LC for the first time,
> 
> Ah, the macintrash!
> 
> I don't understand why any Apple II'ers went to the trash...   Totally
> closed, very expensive, now a PC...  very little free software... 

It was the next logical step. I've told this little story before, but I'll
tell it again:

I've inherited the Apple II and Macintosh collections of about 3 or 4
different people.

I have tons of Apple II and IIe documentation, and I have very very little
IIc and IIgs documentation, but quite a bit of early Macintosh
documentation.

It's easy to see why. When the Macintosh was released in 1984, all of these
people switched over to it. It may not have been the superior system at the
time, but when the 512K and Mac Plus were released by 1986, there was no
going back to the II.

-- 
Mac GUI Vault - A source for retro Apple II and
Macintosh computing.
http://macgui.com/vault/

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