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Talking about Commodore & Atari 8 bit machines: "I consider those a brochure for why you should buy an Apple II or Macintosh. I think people have already determined that the sub-$500 computers don't do very much. They either tease people to want more or frustrate people completely."

Seems like he's believed that you can't make a good computer at the $500 price point for a long time now (his take on netbooks is pretty much the same).




$500 in 1985 dollars is roughly $1,000 today.


" I think people have already determined that the sub-$500 computers don't do very much."

They got a lot of people into the game.

I couldn't afford an Apple, but I could afford a C64.

Learned C on it.


Thing is, you can do essentially everything on a netbook, just not in Aluminium & Aqua luxury.




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