Re: IIc anniversary noted on CNN

["GSGeek" <yves.mcdonald@<NO_SPAM>sympatico.ca>]

"Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net> a �crit dans le message news:
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> "Albert D. Kallal" <kallal@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:1TVqa.47223$ya.1411197@news1.calgary.shaw.ca...
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> One interesting factoid- Bill Gates did some of the programming for the
> firmware.  Apparently it was the last programming he did.  I have the text
> of an interview with him where he talks about it.

Oooh! The roots of Windows :)

> after all,
> the
> > //c did not have its own screen?
> >
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> Who knows. It sure makes you wonder about the accuracy of the news.  I
often
> read about something I saw, or know a lot about, and think "that's not
what
> happened."

One nice source of info about Apple 2 history is www.apple2history.org.
Apple supplied an LCD screen as an aftertought but we are still missing a
12V battery to power the whole thing and make it a laptop.  The 2c was
conceived in a time where Jobs was imagining a computer as an appliance: a
closed box you plug in and start using immediately.  The 2c project was also
an engineering challenge to cram every bits of Apple 2 hardware in a nice
small package and voila: a low-cost Apple 2.  There are no surprise that the
first Mac was introduced about at the same time.

Anyway, the 2c case is cool and I look forward to add one to my collection.

Yves