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From: grunwald@uiuccsb.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Why people own Apples - (nf)
Message-ID: <2736@uiucdcs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Sep-83 22:33:23 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  7 22:33:23 1983
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uiuccsb!grunwald    Sep  7 12:58:00 1983

   All of these advantages of the Apple that you mention are not so much
advantages of the Apple per se, they are add-ons that other people have
come up with. The 8080 boards, the extended displays, the different keysets,
etc etc..Those don't come with a "stock" apple. A "stock" off-the-shelf apple
is nearly useless for any serious work.

  In time, all the perpherials available for the apple will be available for
other machines. The apples main advantage in this area is that it has been
around for a while, and thus lots of people have designed add-ons.

  I would venture to say that if you tried to make an apple be equivilent to
another more recent PC as far as memory, disk drives, speed, etc go, then
you'd wind up having a very hacked-up system and lots of bills.


				dirk "put it to pasture" grunwald
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