Re: Apple II seen on PBS

[schefflr@news.msus.edu (Bill Scheffler)]

Josh Spatz (MJKV57C@prodigy.com) wrote:
: That show was very misleading. They made it seem like Bill Gates was 
: responsible for the entire computer inidustry's existence, and didn't 
: even mention the importanc contributions of some people who did more than 
: Gates (i.e. Jack Tramiel, Nolan Bushnell, and a bunch more). They also 
: made Steve Jobs look pretty bad. And they did'n realize how screwed up 
: the computer industry has gotten over the last 5 years because of 
: Microsoft.

	No kidding.  What about the part where they started the Mac
segment...  "Apple II sales were decreasing, Apple needed something to
compete with the IBM PC" (something like that).  Ok, this was back...oh
about '83 or '84 right?  Apple II not popular, hell they still sold them
well into the early '90's.  They didn't mention that the Apple II kept
the Mac project alive.
	They made Jobs look like some young punk (not that I'm fond of him
or anything -- he basically killed the II), and Bill Gates like some
genius.  He was just in the right place at the right time.  Microsoft
stuff isn't innovative, it's a copy of something that was already done.
Although, they made IBM look like idiots on the show for all their
mistakes.

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