Re: Apple //gs mentioned in MacAddict

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <4vbf4f$t1j@login.freenet.columbus.oh.us>,
Dave Althoff <dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us> wrote:
>Matthew Pearce (mpearce@crl.com) wrote:
>: Charles A. Plater (cplater@rattlehead.pass.wayne.edu) wrote:
>: : reading it, I noticed that they mentioned the Apple IIgs -- There is a
>: : blurb about the 20th Anniversary Mac which they say will be much more
>
>: Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe this is 1996 and the mac was 
>: released in 1984.  That would make the mac 12 years old, not 20...
>
>: Unless of course that Apple is using revisionist history and still thinks
>: thier customers are a bunch of dolts who will believe anything!
>
>Yeah, the Mac was introduced in 1984 ("On January xx, Apple will introduce
>Macintosh.  And you'll find out why 1984 won't be like '1984'").
>
>But Apple started in 1976, did it not?  So the 20th Anniversary Mac isn't
>the 20th year for Macincrashes...it's the 20th anniversary of Apples! 
>Never mind that most of those Apples are ]['s...

Say what now? I think I heard recently that Apple has shipped 25 million Macs.
Six million is the number I recall hearing for total Apple II production.
There are more Mac boxes than all other kinds of Apples put together then.
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