On Saturday, March 23, 2002, at 04:28 PM, Nicholas Dalzell wrote:
> Question #1:
>
> What the dickens was Apple Computer, Inc. thinking in their crazed minds
> when they released an ancient 68000/8MHz processor in 1990?!?!? The
> least
> they could have done to make the classic better and more popular (and to
> get rid of the "Road Apple" rating) was to give it a 68020-30/16MHz!
As I just explained to my dad, it was a computer for the masses
exercise. It was much like the LC and Performa Macs (also introduced in
the very early 1990s) in that it was trying to get the Mac into more
people's homes. My dad's education district bought 70-odd machines to
equip all their advisory (teacher training) staff with a computer around
1990 and at the time it was a great plan.
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