stepping machanism of Apple Disk ][ drive (was Re: Heatkit 51/4 floppies)

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Sun Apr 11 18:20:52 1999

I don't think Commodore was a factor in this aspect of the process. The
Commodore machines weren't "accessible" enough, in that there was no really
convenient way to install the additional hardware people wanted, so nobody
(well, almost) built it.

They couldn't afford a market clash with the Apple. They had a safe market
in Europe, which didn't seem to suffer as badly from the video-toy-looking
Apple as their U.S. market did. By the time all the goodies were installed,
the Apple became a formidable presence to be reckoned with by nearly any
computer maker. The Apples were unduly costly, but they exhibited an
unprecedented breadth of applications with more variety of plug-in
peripherals than even an S-100 box offered.

Dick

-----Original Message-----
From: Cameron Kaiser <ckaiser_at_oa.ptloma.edu>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Sunday, April 11, 1999 3:14 PM
Subject: Re: stepping machanism of Apple Disk ][ drive (was Re: Heatkit 51/4
floppies)


>::I agree with you there. The Zilog boys had the CP/M crowd to maintain
the
>::low-end of their development system market, so nobody could complain it
was
>::too expensive to develop. The MOS-Technology folks had merely to point
at
>::the Apple to accomplish the same thing. Meanwhile, Motorola was making a
>
>Commodore, too (well, they did own MOS Technology, after all).
>
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