Re: Apple II: Second Best Tech Product of All Time!

["mdj" <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

On Apr 5, 9:44 am, David Schmenk <dschm...@GACH.gmail.com> wrote:

> The only point in the life of pre OS X Macintosh that was technically
> interesting was the development of A/UX.  I saw a demonstration in '87
> of a Mac II running unix, X (X10 I believe at that time), and Mac apps
> alongside each other - in color.  And this was when a Sun 3/110 was the
> hot setup.  Like so many things at Apple, they completely botched it.
> Apple then went looking for a next generation OS for PowerPC when they
> already had it working on m68k.  I still keep my SE/30 powered up with
> A/UX just to feel the raw power of unix running on something about as
> powerful as my coffee maker.

Aw, what about CyberDog? ;-)

I share your feelings about A/UX, and to some extent SE/30's but I
would never, ever, say anything that insulting about my coffee
maker :-)

> > But in the 8-bit world, the Apple II was definitely the way to go if
> > you required lots of random expandability and price was not a big
> > consideration.  Unfortunately for Apple, Jobs overpriced the things
> > and so they never acquired the market share that could have been had
> > with just a reasonable price tag for a machine with two disk drives,
> > 128k and a printer.
>
> Well, how else were they going to fund Jobs's ego and Sculley's
> incompetence :-)  At least Jobs has made up for past transgressions - in
> my mind anyway.

I agree. Apple 1996-2006 has been one of the best back-from-the-dead
recoveries ever.

Matt