Re: Apple IIx

[Forrest <bctimes@hotmail.com>]

Rubywand wrote:

>As you say, the Apple II and its user base was still in good shape
>in 1984. Even so, the II series certainly was not "hot".

In 1984 the II line sold 800,000 units, its best performance to that
date and possibly ever; according to the February 1985 issue of
Personal Computing it sold well enough to retake the top spot in
market share that IBM had won for the first time the year before.
 
>Apple had already committed its fatal bad business decision with
>release of the first 68xxx-based Mac. Yes; it was a cute, clever
>machine which sold well.

Not all that well:

"...the world around them was crumbling. Macintosh sales in September
[1984] were less than two-thirds of the 30,000 projected; October
sales were projected at 50,000 and came in below September's.
In November, after the October sales figures came in, Steve walked
into his regular Wednesday-afternoon staff meeting and cast a chill
across the room. The usual cocky dynamism was gone; he looked like a
man who'd been blind-sided by--fate, numbers, whatever. 
I've failed, he announced. What's the price I have to pay?
What's the cost?"  [Frank Rose, _West of Eden_ p217]