8 Oct
2011
8 Oct
'11
6:36 p.m.
> Lisa/NeXT were progreesive attempts towards
Jobs' dream. (which was WAY
> different from Woniak's dream!)
> CLOSED. Avoidance of industry standard removable storage.
> HI-res B&W (was Jobs, by any chance, color blind?)
On Sat, 8 Oct 2011,
Toby Thain wrote:
This more reflects the hardware cost realities of the
time, both in
cards and monitors. For a time, post-Jobs Apple sold 12" & 13"
The original NeXT would not permit color, no matter how much you wanted to
pay.
THERE WAS NO WAY TO CONNECT COLOR.
Meanwhile, those no good competing machines could be trivially upgraded.