Re: What's to become of the Apple II?

[buller@bnr.ca (Jonathan Buller)]

In article <sheldon-2311961755290001@lpm4-23.atlcom.net>,
Sheldon Simms <sheldon@atlcom.net> wrote:
>I agree with you here. Imagine if the Mac II had come with an integrated
>Apple II emulator somewhat like the PowerMac emulation of 68k Macs.
>Of course, the ~$7000 price tag still probably would have been quite a
>deterrent to Apple II users...

If you could get on one of Apple's special lists, you could get it for
about $3000 or $3500.  Students, developers, dealers, etc...  I got on
the student list at Colorado State.  Still expensive, but only about
double what I had spent on a //e 3 years earlier.  And it blew the doors
off the //e in just about every way.  About 100x faster on some of my
Pascal programs for school, better video, more memory, bigger disk, etc.
(I know, comparing native 68000 code to UCSD P-Code is not exactly fair,
so give it only 10x then.  No way to get better video at the time
though, you couldn't get a 1MB //e without MUCH pain, and an 800KB
floppy is a LOT bigger than two 143KB ones.)

Jon Buller
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