11 Apr
2000
11 Apr
'00
8:24 a.m.
Date sent: 10 Apr 2000 23:18:37 -0000
From: Eric Smith <eric(a)brouhaha.com>
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Apple Mac (was: !Re: Nuke Redmond!)
Send reply to: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
In California, and maybe in the rest of the US, but definitly
not anywhere else.
Maybe not
quite as bad as TI, although that $150 "developers club" affair
is pretty close (at least to me, who was a starving college student at the
time).
Apple gave the Inside Macintosh stuff to pretty much any University or
College that wanted it. For comparison, how much did a DEC Orange Wall (TM) of
VMS documentation
cost in 1984? I seriously doubt that DEC gave it away, and suspect that
the complete set was *much* more than $150, but I don't recall hearing
the same degree of grumbling about it.
VMS wasn't exactly a personal system - also, it was no limitation
by DEC about buying additional copies etc.pp.
IMAO, anyone who wanted to write Mac software in 1984
and didn't because
of a supposed lack of technical documentation was simply not sufficiently
motivated. The docs were widely available.
Well, if money is not a hurdle, I'm gulty. Put paying ~2000 USD for
a Mac and another ~2000 USD to be allowed to programm was more than
just a peanut for me back than. At this price I could get an A][ and
UCSD Pascal and all needed docu for less than 1/4th of this. And I
don't had to prove that I'm a worthy developer. It may have been
different in Ca. but over here, you where a pesant barly able to beg
for the favour to be a Mac developer.
Gruss
H.
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