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Re: Apple ][ identification (follow up)



On Apr 12, 3:50 pm, "Sean Fahey" <sean.fa...@a2central.com.remove-mpr-
this> wrote:

> Wow, thats going back when there were so few home computer users in general, we
> hadn't gotten to the "my computer is better than your POS Tandy" phase yet.

Hehe, it sure didn't take us long though:

http://www.textfiles.com/bbs/PRINTOUTS/198503general.txt

Textfiles dates this log at March 1985.  Apparently, Apple had just
closed a few manufacturing plants, and IBM had dropped the PCjr.  The
off-the-cuff predictions were as hilariously brainless as anything
you'd see today.  The only one close to being on-target was a warning
to not count IBM out of the home computer market quite yet; we're all
inheritors of their legacy, even Mac users since the Intel switch.

(And of course only one of the companies mentioned in those messages
is actually still making computers today.)  ;)