Re: The Children of Woz (Re: Apple, Jobs, and the irony of it)

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

anonymous@anonymous.anet (anonymous) wrote:

>The way you post makes it seem like you single handedly financially
>propped up Apple Computer Corporation up until now by purchasing that
>Apple ][ Plus on clearance sale back in 1983.

It is obvious you have no knowledge of the Apple II
platform.  My Apple IIGS was a ROM 03 unit
released by Apple in 1989 and bought from them
about a year later.

The Apple II line was better than you seem to give
it credit for.  The user base was almost fanatically
devoted to the platform.

That good will was squandered.  Anyone who
subscribed to A+ and InCider and A+/InCider
over those years knows the letters that came in
from users who defected to the PC.

Joe Kohn who I still see posts here from time to
time was a columnist in those magazines.  I
am sure he remembers.

Yes, this is an Apple II forum and blasting Apple
for what they did to that platform is every bit on
topic.  csa2 is not comp.sys.apple.  Not all of
us blindly follow the company.  We follow the
hardware.  And that does not mean Macintosh.

>supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
>
>> As I have said, the modern PC with an nVidia
>> nForce2 chipset and a high end Athlon CPU
>> has more Apple II soul than any Macintosh.
>
>Huh? Your comment would lead one to believe you are grasping at straws
>that were never there to begin with.

Look beyond the Apple badge for a moment.
You will see that Macintosh has no heritage
with the Apple II.  In contrast, when IBM
designed the PC, some of the design criteria
were that it have expansions slots and the
like.  So yes, the modern PC has inherited
more from the Apple II than the Macintosh
has from it.

Those who pushed the Mac at Apple were
responsible for the destruction of the Apple II.