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Re: And you thought Apple II users were screwed by Apple...
- Subject: Re: And you thought Apple II users were screwed by Apple...
- From: CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney)
- Date: 1999/09/06
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Shaw@Home
- References: <7qpuvq$l04$1@chakotay.ncc74656.org> <david.936452627@wraith> <7qup77$oc5$1@chakotay.ncc74656.org>
- Reply-to: CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney)
On 5 Sep 1999 22:01:11 GMT, salfter@chakotay.ncc74656.org (Scott
Alfter) wrote:
>On second thought, I suppose I also forgot about Micro Channel as a way to
>screw customers. Then again, the market mostly ignored Micro Channel. It
>was easy for people to do that; IBM wasn't the only game in town.
Micro Channel wasn't a way to screw customers. It was a new, and
better, standard that IBM was trying to create. Their mistake was not
giving away the specs for free. They required the clone makers to pay
them a fee to be able to use Micro Channel on their motherboards so
the clone makers just said, no thanks, and made their own standard.
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