What was really striking was the difference between manuals for the Apple II and Macs. The II manual was probably one of the finest user-friendly manuals for a

What was really striking was the difference between manuals for the Apple II and Macs. The II manual was probably one of the finest user-friendly manuals for a computer ever created. Of course it addressed a different audience ... the users, not the purchasers. The same thing happened to the technical manuals; the II manual was transparent about the machine; while the Mac manual left out a lot of useful technical info and replaced it with the first incarnation of the software-prison. No PEEKs or POKEs or hardware insights, no friendly appeals to having fun and learning. Eventually the rainbow logo became a blase grey ... same shape, but drained of color. Revealing a different personality.