Re: What is Apple II

[Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net>]

In article <Xns93DE92358C21Fnntpspamkosturnet@209.53.75.21>,
 Andre Kostur <nntpspam@kostur.net> wrote:

> Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> wrote in news:D8T0b.13411$dk4.485858
> @typhoon.sonic.net:
> 
> > Apple //gs = The Apple IIe's "big brother" - In some ways, could almost 
> > be considered a "prototype Macintosh" since many of the ideas that were 
> > "just barely there" or "just barely usable" in that machine have have 
> > been refined and incorporated into the current Macintosh computers.
> 
> Are you sure about that?  I'm pretty sure that the Macintosh (128) pre-
> dates the IIGS (and before the Macintosh, the Lisa.....)

Like I said, "In some ways, could almost be..."

The GS brought things to the table (let's start with "color" as the most 
obvious) that Macs would spend at least another 3 years dreaming of 
being able to do. 

That's not to bash Macs... Not by a *LONG* ways! 5 of the 6 machines 
sitting on my desk are Macs - a IIci, a PowerBook 145, a Performa 637CD 
(bought as "dead due to lightning, but I want the monitor and the owner 
won't sell it except as a unit", then turned out to be "the modem is 
cooked, but the rest is 100% fine"), and my two "big guns" - a PowerMac 
7500-G4/350, and a PowerMac 7600-G3/300. The sixth machine is, of 
course, an Enhanced Apple //e. (with its video out plugged into the VCR 
in, which in turn runs to the 637CD's TV tuner card, and gets displayed 
on that machine's monitor... A rather roundabout cobble-job, but hey... 
it saves me having to find room for (and a place to plug in) YET ANOTHER 
monitor!)

As for Lisas, I don't even count them as anything meaningful - Basically 
nothing but an unfinished Mac that got hurried to market *WAY* too 
early. The darn things still had training wheels *ON* their training 
wheels, fergawdsake... Nope... Lisas were, at best, a computer 
curiousity. Which is probably why several hundred thousand of them got 
dumped into a landfill in Utah still in their boxes...

And don't even bring up the Apple ///... <shudder> Now THERE was a 
disaster looking for a place to happen! And ugly as a bucket fulla 
monkey arse into the bargain...

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