Re: Pre-Macintosh Apple Computers Stink Like Human Waste

[Steve Hix <sehix@NOSPAMspeakeasy.netINVALID>]

In article <1147542503.916013.187970@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
 "Radium" <glucegen1@excite.com> wrote:

> 
> Gregory Weston wrote:
> > In article <1147467132.115184.24330@j73g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
> >  "Radium" <glucegen1@excite.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Doug_M wrote:
> > > > Radium wrote:
> > > > > Pre-Macintosh Apple computers stink like human waste
> > > >
> > > > You must be a former TI99/4a owner, or was it the Coleco Adam? Wait, I
> > > > know, you had the kit version of the TS-1000 (with 16k expansion pack).
> > >
> > > No. I am talking about the non-macintosh apple computer that came
> > > before the Mac and they used those big floppy discs called
> > > "mini-floppies". These computers were in my elementary schools from '89
> > > - '96. Those computers stunk like human-kakaa.
> 
> 
> > In their day, which was distinctly before 1989, the Apple II line was a
> > truly phenomenal piece of equipment. It's really not reasonable to
> > compare it to something that was 10-15 years newer in an industry that's
> > had such explosive growth and declare it crap.
> 
> Well, I rate the Commodore and IBM of the 80's as much higher than the
> Apple.

You'd certainly *hope* that something two or three generations later 
would have some improvements. Neither of them existed when the Apple][ 
was developed, were they?

> IMHO, the Windows OSes of the 80s were the most superior of
> their time. Of course, my current favorite OS is Windows 98SE.

Ah, I see.

Almost anything is possible, if you set your standards low enough.