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

[Ryan 'Gozar' Collins <gozarcollins@hotmailNoSpam.com>]

Should I be honored or a little scared that something I wrote 20 years ago
to come back and haunt me!! 

And now I have a MacBook air, but my Atari 800xl and Apple IIgs and IIc+
still hooked up. 

D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> wrote:
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> From: rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins)
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> Subject: Apple //, Mac LC, The Future of the Apple //
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> Date: 1 Apr 91 04:53:36 GMT
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> Well, here are my thoughts on the Apple // line and the Mac LC.
> 
> What Apple should be doing is lowering the price of the //c+ to about $150 
> to $200 dollars. That would move them out the door, schools would be able 
> to afford more computers, etc, etc. The current prices apple wants for the 
> // line is outrageous.
> 
> I saw a Mac LC for the first time, what a joke!! It has color all right, 
> but it's still the same resolution as the Classic, 512X384! Really the 
> entire Mac line is still way too expensive, and when you get to Mac 
> software, the prices go out the roof!! (In a MacUser magazine a few months 
> back they did a review of word processors for the home, now that the 
> Classic was aimed for the market. The definition of bargain software was 
> over $100 dollars!! And they expect people to buy it for there home?!?
> 
> It's a shame how the Apple company is run. (I thought Atari was bad!! At 
> least Apple advertises!!) They could still be making a killing at the 
> educational market market, but are to interested in the business market, 
> and at the same time losing the educational market to MS-DOS clones. (Why 
> is a school going to buy an outdated //c+ when for a few dollars more, then 
> can own this shiny MS-DOS clone?)
> 
> What the world needs is an affordable computer, one that can be used at the 
> home, and still keep up with the big boys at work, and still cost under 
> $200, with only a disk drive.
> 
> To keep up with the business market, the next generation, a //c++? should
> have 
> out of the box:
> 
> 	o The necessary hardware to r/w MSDOS disks. This would provide the 
> ability to transfer data back and forth from work.
> 
> 	o The appropriate translation modules to translate Lotus, Word 
> Perfect into AppleWorks. You don't need the real thing, just to be able to 
> use the information from the real thing.
> 
> 	o Bundle Appleworks with the hardware.
> 
> 	o Make the imagewriter affordable. ($200-$250)
> 
> 	o And maybe even some sort of GUI. (Not GEOworks, unless it is a 
> lot better than the C64 version, the only form of GEOworks I've been in 
> contact with.) Maybe something like the IIgs Finder?
> 
> 	o 256K of memory.
> 
> 	o And of course, bundle a joystick and some games with it!!
> 
> Maybe its a pipe dream which will probably never happen, but I feel that 
> this would be an instant success.
> 
> Dad: Well, we can get a Nintendo for Jr, but an Apple //c++ only cost a 
> hundred more, and it comes with some useful software, Jr could use it for 
> his school work, I could do some work from the office at home, etc...
> 
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