Re: holy grail of apple computing?

[Eric Smith <eric@brouhaha.com>]

Mitchell Spector wrote:
>     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.

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

With all due respect, Woz wasn't much involved in the Apple II
engineering group in the last few years.  There *were* other prototype
machines.  I wasn't in the Apple II group, but I did work at Apple at
that time, and several friends were in the Apple II group.  I never saw
a "Mark Twain", but there were a bunch of "Tenspeed" models being used
by developers, and that model *almost* made it into production.  I don't
think these had any internal disk drives as is reported of the MT, but
they DID have a faster CPU and more memory.

Eric