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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple VS IBM
Message-ID: <9592@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 4 Feb 89 11:04:01 GMT
References: <8901270656.AA01616@crash.cts.com> <6258@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <25073@apple.Apple.COM> <2312@uokmax.UUCP> <2804@m2-net.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2804@m2-net.UUCP> moses@m-net.UUCP (Eric Doggett) writes:
>Apple is ok, but you are forgetting, IBM pulled out of the PC business...

That's sure news to me!

>Also Apple has made many many revisions on one type of computer, how many 
>people want to have a computer that they use for a while, then in order to
>keep up with the newer stuff you need to put out a lot of money, I have an
>Apple //c ...

The //c was another of Jobs' great ideas.  One of the things that
Woz did right with the Apple II was to make it expandable, not
replaceable.  The //c was apparently targeted at the sort of yoyos
for whom Apple user manuals are now written, who would only blow up
their computer if they could get the cover off.  If growth was a
factor you would have been better advised to have bought a //e.

The IIGS is sufficiently advanced over the other Apple II family
members that it couldn't be achieved as a simple plug-in expansion.
(Although, //e owners could upgrade via a motherboard replacement.)