ralphw@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre) (02/11/89)
In article <690@wpi.WPI.EDU> tron@wpi.wpi.edu (Richard G Brewer) writes: >... Apple has been more than nice to us, the >early apple// and Macintosh owners. You don't see IBM offering PS/2 boards to >people who bought the PC-XT-AT systems, do you? Apple could have saved >themselves some major bucks by just saying, "screw 'em," and not offering //e >-> gs boards, and 128->512KE->MacPlus and SE->SE/30 board swaps (these swaps >have to be DESIGNED, remember, and that takes time, and time is money). Apple doing the upgrades just makes good business sense. I read yesterday (in 'The Journey is the Reward', Steve Young's story about Steve Jobs - made ME wish I grew up in the Valley) that Apple even offered an upgrade from the Apple I ($666.66) to the Apple II ($1295 with 4K, as I recall.) Anyone remember what the upgrade might have cost? Dream-machine-of-the-month: The Apple IV, so named because of 4 33Mhz 65832's running various parts the show. (with caches, you shouldn't need too much 30 ns memory, say only 128K to start with. [one with the current bank's instructions and/or data, and one that starts geting filled the next bank's data as it is needed.) -- - Ralph W. Hyre, Jr. Internet: ralphw@{ius{3,2,1}.,}cs.cmu.edu Phone:(412) CMU-BUGS Amateur Packet Radio: N3FGW@W2XO, or c/o W3VC, CMU Radio Club, Pittsburgh, PA "You can do what you want with my computer, but leave me alone!8-)" --