Re: WANTED: Apple III info

[jd-wong@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jim Wong)]

news@tyrell.net (*) writes:
>Stress "in spite of".  The apple II carried the Mac for years -- that's
>why the Apple IIgs was built -- because the Mac wasn't selling well
>enough yet, but the Apple IIe was starting to lose ground to the PCs. 
>Apple had to prop up that end until reinforcements arrived.

While the Apple II certainly did carry the Mac for quite a while,
it's somewhat misleading to state that Macintosh's poor sales were
the reason the GS was produced.  In fact, the Mac Plus, which was
a best-selling model in its day, was released many (eight, I think)
months before the GS.  The //c and //e were the machines primarily
responsible for keeping Apple afloat while the Macintosh platform
matured.
-- 
Jim Wong (jd-wong@uiuc.edu)