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Article #20912Re: Apple Stumbling (was "Apple Hates You and other Misconceptions")
From: jww
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1987 16:18
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1987 16:18
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In article <6659@ut-ngp.UUCP>, kraut@ut-ngp.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) writes:
> oh, and let's not forget to mention the Mac 128k, which was relatively useless
> all things considered (flaky hardware, no software, insufficient power)
>
> aren't you glad that "just enough" of us bought a 128k Mac in 1984 (and used
> them as doorstoppers) to allow Apple to make it to 1985 (and the arrival of
> cheaper 256k RAM-chips) so that the "rest of you" could get on the bandwagon.
I'd dispute the claim that a Mac 128K was useless. I used it constantly
throughout 1984 for MacWrite and MacKermit, both of which did a better
job than any software/hardware combination I had available in any
other form. I still like the 128/Plus/SE form factor, which is not
bad for a transportable computer.
Sure, the 128K was not a serious business computer. But I found the slowness
and smallness of the disk drives more serious than 128K (at the time).
Thanks to MultiFinder, however, today 1 Mb just isn't enough.
--
Joel West (c/o UCSD)
Palomar Software, Inc., P.O. Box 2635, Vista, CA 92083
{ucbvax,ihnp4}!sdcsvax!jww jww@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu
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