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Re: The Apple II is crap
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 10:03:27 +0100, James Weatherley <news@weatherley.net>
wrote:
You lose count pretty easily - that's only five! There was also the eMate
which was a repackaged Newton with a keyboard. It is a shame that the
Newton got dropped. I think the never ending criticism of its handwriting
recognition sunk it - that and Apple's then dodgy financial state. I
never used but I did try out an eMate and it coped very well with my
scrawl and I much prefered the natural handwriting recognition to the
PalmOS Grafitti text entry system.
Abandoned is probably a bit strong for the Apple I and ][ - the Apple I
was just a board made by Woz in Jobs' garage. The ][ had a pretty long
life - yeah the zealots will quote 'Apple ][ for ever' but it was obvious
that the Mac was Apple's future. Lisa was just too expensive - pre-
emptive OS and memory protection was going to cost you in those days! Did
anyone buy the ///?
The Lisa (IIRC was later marketed as the Macintosh XL) was pretty kick-a$$
machine for it's time (actually even for now... Mac OS did not get back up
to these kinds of specs until System 8 and later and not even then...
probably the only things that come close are the NeXT and OS X).
As for the III, YES I DID HAVE ONE! And not only that I did have the
portable (ie terrible) LCD screen that went on it (worked with the II(e?)
too). Pretty cool stuff!
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