Re: trying to get an Apple II GS going for fun...

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Astro <wizard@direct.ca> wrote:

> On 18 May 1999 05:33:57 GMT, supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
> 
> Yeah I recently read up on some Apple Corp history. Jobs may indeed
> have had the enterprising drive which catapulted Wozniak's ingenious
> invention into the mass market, but if it weren't for the utter
> validity and elegance of Wozniak's invention, Jobs might not have ever
> got anywhere. At least it is my understanding that the original Apple
> I was primarily conceptualized and constructed by Woz. Of course the
> Apple I would eventually evolve into the IIGS, only to evolve no
> further, because of Jobs undermining the project.

Did Jobs have anything to do with the languishing of the IIgs?  I think
he was gone from Apple before the IIgs was released (I seem to remember
that John Sculley was in charge at the time), and Jobs didn't come back
until after all Apple II development was canned (1993).

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