Re: Apple //x: Did it ever exist?

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <CuJFEo.Bo6@rci.ripco.com>, Eli Lehrer <eli@ripco.com> wrote:
> About five years ago, a friend told me about an Apple //x.
> Supposedly, the new computer had a faster chip and some other
> assorted enhancments.  As best as I can tell, it never shipped.  Was
> such a machine ever on the drawing board?   

The Apple //x was a rumoured new Apple II back in early 1985.  This
rumour turned out to be true, if a little premature.  The //x
materialised as the Apple IIgs in late 1986.

I'm not aware of any more recent rumoured machine called the //x.
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David Empson
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