Re: Which is better - IIGS or Laser 128EX?

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Bruce Randall Baker (av428@freenet.buffalo.edu) wrote:

: I always figured that the gs was discontinued first was becasue
: the //e had a much larger computer base and software base.
: Plus schools were still buying //es.  GS's in my experience, never
: caught on as an education computer.  Very little sfotware for
: education was written that was specific to the gs.   There was a
: demand for the //e from a source that could speak loud, the 
: school systems of America.   //gs have always been mostly a hobby
: computer.

I think the assembly line angle I related earlier in this thread sounds 
plausible. I kinda remember hearing a story around the time the IIgs was
discontinued that Apple sold precisely seven IIgses and seven //e's nationwide
in a one month period not long before IIgs production halted.
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