Re: holy grail of apple computing?

["Sean Fahey" <a2fan@hotmail.com>]

"Mitchell Spector" <mitch2gs@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>     I'm surprised after all these years, only the Mark Twain has been
> uncovered. Rumor had it there were prototype boards with improved
> Super-Hi-Res (400 line modes with true 4-bit and 8-bit color) 128K of
> DOC-RAM, faster 65C816, all in addition to what the Mark Twain had.

Because those other prototypes didn't really exist. It was all wishful
thinking. (Woz, KFest 2003)

>     As an example of what's still out there, has anyone ever heard of
> the Apple IIp? Apple was working on an Apple II notebook with flip-top
> LCD screen that never  was released. Interestingly, years later I did a
> search and actually found one, sitting on a Macintosh prototype
> museum page. It's still there:
>
> http://www.theapplecollection.com/design/macproto/Apple2p.html

The IIp is just a mockup but I believe the concept was abandoned and later
licensed in what become The Tiger Learning Computer - an Apple IIe in a
portable case, sans disk drive. Used cartridges instead.

http://www.applefritter.com/node/239