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I'm not sure how it makes sense to compare the Apple II to the C64... The C64 was released in 1982 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64 http://en.wikipe

by swombat 14y ago

I'm not sure how it makes sense to compare the Apple II to the C64... The C64 was released in 1982 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64 ), a whole 5 years after the Apple II in 1977 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_series http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_series ), so I damn well hope that it gave more bang for the buck.

gaius 14y ago
Compare directly to the 64k IIe, then. $595 vs $1200, according to Wikipaedia. Anyway, my point is not to take anything away from Apple or Jobs, but it's a stretch to say that they were so far ahead of everyone else. If you need a hero for rhetorical purposes, try Jack Tramiel :-)
- swombat 14y ago
  But I don't care about what was going on 5 years later. My point is that when the Apple II came out (not the IIe or the Mac or any other Apple product) they were miles ahead everyone else, and it was a product that in theory could have sold itself, but still needed a kick-ass salesperson to get off the ground. What happened years later is totally irrelevant to this point.