----- Original Message -----
From: "Cameron Kaiser" <spectre at floodgap.com>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 10:54 PM
Subject: Re: State of the art
> He was one of the last people I knew of who was
an extreme Mac bigot who
> finally threw in the towel quite a few years back. He had gotten a
honking
> PC of some sort and said somewhat wistfully that
his beloved Macs could
no
longer do
anything the PC couldn't.
Inevitably, even inferior technologies catch up at some point. :)
*scnr*
What is innovative and special one day is common and cheap the next. Many
companies have come up with good ideas and milked them to death before the
inevitable market forces make their idea a commodity and force the original
company to make another innovation or go out of business. Apple was lucky to
have both the Apple II and the Mac line, but they are now known more for an
OS and a music player. Commodore was lucky to have both the C64 and the
Amiga, but could not come out with anything better and died.
To me the Mac lineup pretty much went to hell when they killed off the 68K
processors. I honestly only like the era from the Mac II to the 840AV anyway
(expansion, large memory capacity, SCSI, multiple monitor support, great
sound and AV hardware add-ons, decent OS for the time, etc).