Apple Computer Collecting

From: Chandra Bajpai <cbajpai_at_comcast.net>
Date: Fri Apr 2 21:45:56 2004

My vote goes for anything in the Apple Lisa line...especially if it's
running LisaOS 7/7. For it's day it was ahead of it's time and it can
trace it's lineage directly to the Xerox Alto. Trip Hawkins (Lisa
Product Manager at the time) said the Mac is a cost reduced version of
Lisa with some of the really advanced stuff cut out (e.g. real
multitasking, VM etc.). Don't forget the Lisa team vs. Mac/Jobs team
development wars...some of these items are archived at folklore.org.

But I'm kind of biased...I'm a huge Lisa fan.

-Chandra


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[mailto:cctalk-bounces_at_classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Marvin Johnston
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 5:55 PM
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Subject: Apple Computer Collecting


What in the Apple line of computers, etc. is worth keeping, i.e.
hardware, software, documentation, and books? Besides the Apple I, are
there any other "holy grail" type of items?

I have several Apple printers including the Imagewriter and Imagewriter
II. Are these as common as dirt so I don't have to feel bad about
getting rid of them, or are they worth putting up on the Vintage
Computer Marketplace? I *think* the only Apple IIx I don't have is the
orginal Apple II and the "Black" Apple II+, and I would still like to
keep one each of the II line. The only Macs I am keeping are the
original 128K Macs, and maybe one of the 512K machines.
Received on Fri Apr 02 2004 - 21:45:56 BST