Re: the new Apple II - if it exists

[rubywand@aol.com (RUBYWAND)]

In article <4mrrc1$h9k@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu>, snelson@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu
(Steven Nelson) writes:

>
>My recollection:  I believe there was a lawsuit by Apple records.  It was
>settled out of court the same week that the IIGS Rom4 (Mark Twain) was
>cancelled.  The terms of settlement were never released.  I always
assumed
>that the IIGS was the main concession that Apple Com. made to Apple
Records.
>....

     If true, then Apple Computer owes Apple Records a debt that will be
difficult to repay. Mark Twain is the classic example of 'too little too
late'.

     Had someone set out purposefully to produce an under-powered lemon,
they could hardly have done better than Mark Twain. Assuming a selling
price around $2000-- justified, based upon the way Apple managed to botch
the Mac LC project-- MT would have been a marketing disaster and a black
eye for the II series.


Rubywand