New Apple II....

[nkelly@pro-palmtree.cts.com (Nicholas Kelly)]

What I don't understand with all this debate about Apple II GS-X, etc. is
why the machine would need to have all these extras. 

Isn't the whole point of using some of this stuff simply the fact that you
don't need a million mhz or thousands of colors to type a letter or balance
your checkbook?

Apple came out with the IIe card for the LC that was essentially one chip
if I remember. How much harder could it be to bring the originally complex
IIGS down to a similar scale. 

The point really should be, if they offered most of the current setups on
here, IIGS accelerated, 3.5 inch floppy and a medium sized HD with about 4
megs or RAM for say $200. Wouldn't it sell like hotcakes?

To me it would be the perfect "second" computer. Much like a second car for
the family. It could be mostly for the kids, you want lots of cheap
educational software, games and a few other things.

I remember that many a young teen had a Commodore 64 while ol'Dad was
chugging away on a spreadsheet on a PC clone. I myself had more fun as a
early teen with my 64, and my friend's IIe, than the costs could ever
justify.

We always think of things in terms of what the 40 year old guy wants as his
main PC. Most families already have their one. It is IBM or a Mac, and
nothing, repeat nothing is going to change that.

However imagine if you could go to Toy R' Us and by the ten year old their
first computer with a huge educational pack for $200! I think that is a
niche that could be filled.

I am sort of glad that these computers have their limitations. An XT or 286
is basically useless. You can't run anything on it. My Apple IIe's in my
classroom run software that is totally amazing for the hardware it is on.
The reason it is amazing is that someone figured out how to make it do it
with 128k and didn't just demand that I go buy a bigger HD and another 4
megs of RAM.

Anyway, that is my 2 cents worth,
        Nicholas Kelly


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