4 Nov
2001
4 Nov
'01
1:07 p.m.
Well, I'd have to say that, since the performance and reliability haven't
improved since back in the '80's, the Apple was not designed for serious use,
but rather for use by those who didn't value and trust computers enough to make
the investment in one that warranted the value and trust. Oddly enough, it was
less costly to use a much more reliable system with a larger installed software
based, targeted at small business, yet, thanks to the Apple myths, people paid
15%-25% more with the idea that it would be easier to use, which, sadly, it
wasn't.
More below.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Ford" <mikeford(a)socal.rr.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2001 2:12 PM
Subject: Re: hard-sector 5 1/4 disk
The notion of "Wintel" and the associated propaganda "Myth"
didn't exist in
'79-'80, so that's clearly not what's being said here.
The way I seem
to remember it is that, back then, we were amazed when things
worked, rather than being irked when they didn't. Apple's attitude was
clear,
though, and that was that if your data really mattered, you'd certainly use a
computer and not an Apple. The Apple wasn't designed from the ground up as a
That was NEVER the apple position, and while they grew largest in
education, Apple clearly targeted the SOHO market sector. What you are
repeating is the Wintel propaganda against Apple, hence the accronym
TA2INAT The Apple ][ is NOT a TOY.
I don't see how people can fail to be impressed with a system that can come
out of 22 years of use in the public school system and essentially function
as new. Clean and lubricate and the floppy drives still work fine.
I'd say, from many years' experience, that it is probably, and at best, as
poor
as it was straight out of the box. The consensus back in '80 was that, equipped
with an 8" drive pair, the Apple ][ was a pretty good system, provided one
bought the Videx 80x24 display card for it.