On 5 Nov 2005, at 02:41, Anthony Moss wrote:
You can't really compare the Classic with the original Mac 128K!
I just did!
The Classic came out four years, ten months after the Plus; and these two computers are pretty close in specification. If the Classic was a Road Apple, and obsolete at the time it was first introduced, then the Plus, with its pre-ADB peripherals, no internal hard disk and no 1.4M floppy support, was obsolete at some point *before* the Classic was introduced and the Plus phased out. Can't the Mac Plus be compared to the 1989 Mac SE FDHD and found wanting? Even though it was an aesthetically pleasing machine with an incredibly photogenic keyboard and mouse, it should have been phased out at least a year sooner: possibly two years.
My concern is that during its long life, the Plus became an under-powered anachronism, kept in the sales brochures to offer a relatively cheap entry into the Mac world. But the Classic was, from the day of its launch, an under-powered anachronism, kept in the sales brochures to offer a relatively cheap entry into the Mac world. I'll concede that the 'OS in ROM' feature was neat, though!
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