Re: What is Apple II

[Roger Johnstone <rojaws@ihug.co.nz>]

In <qhd6ed2haq.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> Eric Smith  wrote:
> supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) writes:
>> Then there was Quickdraw II for the IIGS which was
>> introduced somewhere between the Plus and the
>> Mac SE & Mac II.
>> 
>> The Apple IIGS.  A thorn in the Mac's side.  ;-)  It
>> came with the first Apple color GUI and was the
>> first with ADB ports.
> 
> At one time, the abortion that was released as Quickdraw GX on
> the Macintosh had the tentative name "Quickdraw II".  I pointed
> out to the engineers that the name was already taken.

I seem to recall the name Quickdraw was also used for the drawing 
routines that came with the Apple Graphics Tablet (1979?).

What about the current 'SuperDrives'? The only relation they have to the 
old 3.5" floppy drives is that they can each write to two different 
formats, GCR/MFM and CD-ROM/DVD-ROM.

-- 
Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand

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