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Article #7797A Blast From the Past
From: James Preston
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1989 19:42
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1989 19:42
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Hey, speaking of Apple's warranties, I was looking through some of my old
magazines the other day (to finally throw some out) and I found one called
_Future Life_, cover dated February 1980 (yes, almost ten years ago). Flipping
through it, I found this great section on home computers for the '80s. After
the chuckles from reading about the TRS-80 Model 1 ("includes cassette recorder
and is availabe with two sizes of memory (4K and 16K)"), the Commodore Pet for
$800, the "Renaissance Machine" (the Compucolor II), and the TI-99/4 (the
"long-awaited entry of that company in the home computer field"), I came to
the Apple II and Apple II Plus ("comes with 16K RAM (expandable to 48K) of
Integer BASIC (a fast language designed for games and high-speed graphics)").
The most interesting quote, however, was the following:
A testimonial to the confidence that rides with this machine is the
blunt fact that it is the only micro-computer with a one-year warranty
(virtually everyone else has a 90-day warranty).
Gee, I guess there's no other conclusion but that Apple no longer has
confidence in their machines, right? ;-)
(Love that word "blunt" in there.)
--James Preston
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