mort@ihuxn.UUCP (Dubman) (04/15/84)
A friend of mine is friends with an educational software company that has a
pre-release Apple IIc. He told me the following things about it:
It measures about 1 foot by 1 foot
It has 1 built-in disk drive on the SIDE. (The Side? Is this sacreligious?)
128K built in RAM
Built-in paralell (sic) and serial interfaces (I take his word for it)
He wasn't aware of any expansion slots.
Hmm. Apple would not put 0 expansion slots in... Maybe he overlooked him.
(I mean 'them') Anyway- Computer&Software News claimed that they had seen
the machine and thought that it would "cannibalize the Apple //e's sales"
C&SN said that Apple originally priced the machine at $1300 made a last
minute change to $1550 to distinguish it more from the Apple //e. The //e
is allegedly going to drop in price. An executive at Apple told another
friend of mine last February that the //e would go for $750 sometime this
spring (I don't know what that would include) and C&SN said last week that
the //e would be available for "mass-marketing".
Also in the C&SN news article last week was a little section on how Apple
had removed a "location clause" from its dealer agreement. I think that
this deregulates the Apple Dealership a certain amount.
Rumors, Rumors, Rumors, about new Apple products. Meanwhile, I plug away
at my 1980 II+, which I am glad to say is being supported by Apple. Can you
expect the same from Atari, Commodore, or the others? And here is some
raw speculation: I think Woz is conjuring up an Apple //e board for the
II+ for next fall (80-column upper/lower case, 128K Ram?)
While I am at it, I might as well say that Apple was planning an Apple //x
(Yes, 'x') that would include
1 Megabyte of Ram
16 bit 6502c microprocessor
But the 6502c won't be available until late '85...
In search of new Apple-Ications---
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Jonathan Dubman - care of:
Mort Dubman AT&T Bell Laboratories
ihnp4!ihuxn!mort Naperville, IL.