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

[anonymous@anonymous.anet (anonymous)]

In article <20030907043740.23785.00000639@mb-m22.aol.com>,
supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
> 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.

All I did was take a wild guess as to the last time you purchased an Apple
II model. So you purchased a ROM 3 (note there is no zero before the 3),
so congratulations, I have to give you more credit than I originally gave
you. But still, that was back in 1989. This is 2003 going on 2004. I still
hardly think Apple cares what you think. Nothing you say will make them
resurrect the Apple II family of computers, it's been about 10 years since
any Apple II was even on their price lists, more years than that since one
could have probably walked into a dealership and actually seen an Apple II
on display.



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

What the? Where did I not give the Apple II line credit? Where are you
getting your delusional ideas from?





> 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.

Since Apple only makes Macintosh computers now, one would think blasting
them in comp.sys.mac.advocacy would make more sense.

As you say, this is comp.sys.apple2, so stick to the subject, the Apple II.
Not AMD advocacy, not Mac bashing, *just* Apple II related info. See, do
you see?





> 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.

Again, grasping for straws are we?
With one of my Macs, I can hook up and Apple II 5.25" drive, Apple II
joystick, and use Apple II software under hardware emulation, and
read/write Apple II disks. I can't do that with my PC.

Most Macs have expansion slots, often between 3 to 6 slots each, not to
mention the myriad of already built in ports on the back. You seem to be
stuck in the 1984 to 1986 era (before Macintosh II) when in those two
years, certain models lacked expansion slots.





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

Boo Hoo. Get over it.
Why should you care....you claim your AMD Decapitated has an Apple II
soul, so you should be as happy as a pig in his own filth.

I say you're a kook who is so single minded, you have the blinders on.
Can't you see you're just as bad as die hard Mac people who denounce
everything about the Wintel platform? As a matter of fact, you  are worse.

Go back to talking about Apple II machines. This is comp.sys.apple2.