Re: The IBM PC's slavish devotion to the Apple II

[Greg Buchner <apple22@mn.rr.com>]

In article <54icndqDaspUmHWjXTWcpQ@comcast.com>,
 "Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote:

> > The story goes that when IBM engineers were working on the IBM PC, an
> > IBM VP brought in his Apple II+, opened it up and said that they had to
> > do that.  It was likely that it was on its way to being a closed system
> > before that.  Standard IBM operating procedures...
> 
> Again, I say give me a source. I'd like to read this from
> a reliable, not someone slapping hearsay into a usenet
> group.

Couldn't give you a ready source...it's something I read in a book more 
than 10 years ago.  No idea what book it was out of and it was well 
before I had readily available internet access.

And, being that you're so high on having a source, could you give one 
for the statement where you said that IBM bailed out Apple?  I don't 
seem to remember that.

Greg B.

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