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   From: brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com   
      
   On Dec 17, 2025 at 9:17:03 AM MST, ""Joel W. Crump"" wrote   
   <5IA0R.416292$w6H4.248666@fx11.iad>:   
      
   > On 12/16/25 9:26 PM, Brock McNuggets wrote:   
   >> On Dec 16, 2025 at 1:50:48 PM MST, "CrudeSausage" wrote   
   >> <6941c628$0$21959$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>:   
   >>   
   >>>> Nope.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Because you haven't even supported your first claim that:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> 'Jobs wanted to give people the IMPRESSION that their machines were   
   >>>> premium by charging more.'   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Actually building premium machines isn't giving people an impression   
   >>>> that they're premium.   
   >>>   
   >>> The Apple ][ was built better than the plastic competition, I'll give   
   >>> you that much. Nevertheless, it was capable of much less than even   
   >>> Atari's machines.   
   >>   
   >> I am NOT an expert in the others, but from what I saw nothing compared to   
   the   
   >> old AppleWorks. Of course that is just one class of software.   
   >   
   > AppleWorks was a remarkable achievement.  It's par for the course, now,   
   > for an OS to offer certain things, but in the past, it had to be   
   > fashioned by any means necessary.  That was why I ended up being glad my   
   > mom bought the used Apple IIe we had, because I learned so much about   
   > self-reliance in programming on it.   
      
   Tha and a bunch of EDU software is what drew me to the Apple IIe, but also   
   familiarity. Just happened to be what I was around. I did play with some other   
   systems of the era but not as much. I first saw Lemmings on an Amiga and had   
   fun with that.   
      
      
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