John C Dvorak: Stupid MacUser Tricks

[sbeattie@helios.augustana.edu (Shawn T. Beattie)]

Has anyone else read John C Dvorak's column in the April MacUser
on the "demise of the Apple II?"

I've never read anything with more misinformation and hatred 
about the Apple II.  Let me quote a little to give you an idea:

"Now I know why John Sculley was forced out of Apple...he made
 some sort of vow never to discontinue the Apple II"

"The Apple II was marked for death the day the Mac was introduced"

"It's a sorry situation that the Apple II has become like the
 Bell & Howell film projector--ubiquitous and out of date"

"The Apple II was a dead-end loser of a machine within a year of
 its release in 1977"

"Except for its popularity as a game machine and education machine,
 the Apple II was a joke, a novelty"

"As a business computer, the II was always laughable.  It was
an all uppercase computer. Its reset button was on the keyboard!
Gads. The disk-drive system was a joke.  It sounded like a meat
grinder.  And if the power supply didn't blow up in the thing,
it was a miracle"

"While others lamented the passing of this old dog, I cheered"

Talk about re-writing the history of the Apple II...this is
almost as laughable as Clinton's rewriting the 80's...but that's
another topic :)

Really, though, you have to read the whole article for the 
full entertainment value.

Does anyone have Dvorak's e-mail address? ;)


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