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Several things that jump out at me.. The repetitive emphasis on MacBasic (which never really shipped from Apple, but did from Microsoft) No mention what so ev
by cosmicray 16y ago
Several things that jump out at me..
The repetitive emphasis on MacBasic (which never really shipped from Apple, but did from Microsoft)
No mention what so ever of the internet (which was very nascent and pretty much non-existent in 1981). I doubt they saw it coming.
Brief mention of RS-232 Mac Net (which became AppleBus, then AppleTalk and LocalTalk on RS-422)
Mac screen size resolution was smaller than what finally shipped.
They had not yet made the leap to the 3.5" floppy (other than possibly on the Lisa)
Retail Outlets and Direct Sponsors ... They wanted to encourage sales via Fuller Brush ? I remember when the iMac G3 was briefly sold via Sears, with modest (at best) results.
- epc 16y agoThe shift to 3.5" disks occurred in 1983-1984. I recall the very initial Lisas shipped with a 5¼ disk, but switched to 3.5 later in 1983, the Mac shipped with 3.5 disks (but possibly only single-sided/400k). The Apple 2 line shifted to 3.5 disks with the 2gs around 1985-1986.