Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS

[pubpc1@library.ucla.edu]

David Moles <deivu@eccosys.com> wrote:
>pubpc1@library.ucla.edu wrote:
>> 
>> By the way, when it was around, CR gave a very favorable report of the //e
>> and when comparing the //c to the PCjr., they gave the //c the nod because
>> of the PCjr's "chicklet" keyboard.
>
>Mmm, I reread that article just last year (from some time in 1983,
>I think) and I could swear they said the PCjr was a better deal
>because it could run PC software (not that /I/ agree with that; in
>high school I had to use PCjrs [well, the JX, which was the Japanese
>version], and even with a real keyboard they blew chunks).
>
>--D

Nope.  They said that the //c was better.  They recommended, however,
that the user not go for either the //c or the PCjr., but with a cheaper
home computer like the C64 or 8-bit Atari.

In those days, computers were mainly for word processing and games.