5 Oct
1998
5 Oct
'98
1:30 p.m.
I wrote:
I'm tempted to auction off some of my C66
prototypes :-)
Sam replied:
Yeah, I've got quite a few C63 prototypes (came
BEFORE the C64!) and some
Apple IV's. Not to mention an IBM PC-YT and a VIC 20-1/2.
Yeah, those PDP-0s and IBM System 359s should fetch amazing prices too.
Reminds me of something that happened many years ago. Someone from a local
computer store (or maybe even from Apple; I forget) was giving a slide
presentation about various Apple products to a user group. He described one
of the slides as "a woman typing on an Apple ///". Having just seen Blade
Runner a few days before, I yelled something to the effect that actually it
was Apple IV typing on an Apple ///". This seems to have entertained the
crowd more than the entire rest of the presentation. :-)
There's some evidence to suggest that the Lisa is the Apple VI, which raises
the question of what happened to IV and V.