Re: holy grail of apple computing?

[Mitchell Spector <mitch2gs@hotmail.com>]

"Sean Fahey" <a2fan@hotmail.com> wrote:

>The MT was too little, to late. There was no CPU speed
>increase, so you still had to buy an accelerator. No new graphics modes. And
>by current standards, you'd still need more RAM than what the stock MT
>offered. If they would have bundled the Apple II Ethernet card with it
>standard, it might have made more sense.

    I still believe the Mark Twain is only just _one_ of many IIgs prototypes
that never saw the light of day, and furthermore, a scaled back one.

    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.
 
    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


Mitchell Spector