From: Blake Wehlage <jwilk@iglou.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 11:40:32 +0800
To: jim bell <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: PBS show
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At 09:47 PM 6/13/96 -0800, jim bell wrote:
>At 11:23 PM 6/13/96 EDT, Blake Wehlage wrote:
>>At 09:35 AM 6/13/96 -0800, jim bell wrote:
>
>>>But the Apple II WAS a toy!  Non-detached keyboard, poor placement of reset 
>>>key, upper-case only, 40-character wide display, odd microprocessor, VERY 
>>>SMALL capacity floppies (which were very slow as well), as well as a hostile 
>>>legal situation regarding the building of clones.  Hell, they even objected 
>>>to other companies building boards which plugged into the bus!
>>
>>
>>I was not a toy it was what started the PC revolution
>
>Grandly ignoring the Altair, the TRS-80 Model I, the IMSAI, et al.  Even Jolt!
>
>
>Jim Bell
>jimbell@pacifier.com
>
>
It was the first BIG product, sorry my bad. 
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