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From: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Building a NEW computer
Message-ID: <1990Nov30.183609.6866@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 30 Nov 90 18:36:09 GMT
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$CSD211@LSUVM.BITNET (Mark Orr) writes:

>Apple IIf paper as a start. But take it with a grain of salt. It seem to be
>written from the perspective of "what is a realistic interpolation of what
>Apple could do with the II?" It contains many exceptional ideas but, as I have
>said, I don't think it goes far enough (i.e. it would please Apple II users to
>no end...but how would it attract new users)

Damn right it was a realistic extrapolation. I originally wrote the paper and
mailed the second version to Sculley. He forwarded it to Birss, who wrote me
a nice letter back that said essentially nothing (sources tell me he read it
thoroughly before passing it on). The //f paper's primary purpose was to
attempt to convince Apple that they could do it.

So now Apple's working with ARM to make a new generation of notebook machines.

My idea was limited, but that was so it could be realistic enough to make.
Your idea is superior as an idea, but where are you going to get the funding?

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu