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Re: Apple?

#278
From: Matthew Kennel
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 01:50
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Tuomas Eerola (te@uwasa.fi) wrote:
: In article <3urm4l$e9l@starfruit.csd.sgi.com>,
: kcbrown@starfruit.csd.sgi.com (Kevin Brown) wrote:

: > The real mistakes they made were in the original design.  They should
: > have known that doing it right as close to the start as possible is
: > better, cheaper, more efficient, etc., than getting it right only at
: > the very end.

: At first there was two designs: Lisa that was done the right way and
: Mac that was made the cheap way. Customers wanted the cheap way.

Lisa?  Two words:  twiggy drive.

The mac *was* cool because of those nifty plastic coated 3.5" floppies.
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From: mbk@caffeine.engr.utk.edu (Matthew Kennel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Apple?
Followup-To: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel
Date: 2 Aug 1995 01:50:56 GMT
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