Paul wrote: > You have defamed the machine which convinced me that the idiots who >kept telling me to switch to the dark side were wrong! Read Guru for a >cure for this ignorant rant. There was NO overlap between the production >times for the LC and either the LCII or the LCIII. > It was still a hell of a lot better machine than the mid 90's >peecees. After a 6 year hiatus from a project using a Plus and then an SE >4/40 to do computer animation with BASIC, I went from a 386, upgraded to >486, to an LC, and I really appreciated the difference! > If you don't know the difference between an LC and the peecee, go >back to a 486 and compare. original thread >At 7:20 PM -0800 8/20/01, Michael S. Macdonald wrote: >>(came out >>of an LC...a machine that sent potential Mac users over to the dark side.. >>...how could they have put that machine on the marketplace when they had >>the expertise to build the LC3 at the time???) Let's see...LC stands for 'low cost' Mac LC introduced...October 15, 1990 cpu..68020@16 mHz cost US$2500 Mac LC2 introduced...March 23 1992 cpu...68030@16mHz cost US$1400 Mac LC3 introduced...Feb 10 1993 cou...68030@25 mHz cost US$1350 Mac2 introduced March 2,1987 CPU 68020@16mHz cost...US$5500 Mac SE/30 introduced...January 19,1989 CPU 68030@16mHz cost...US$6500 Mac 2Ci introduced...September 20, 1989 CPU...68030 @25mHz cost US$8800 Mac 2Si introduced... October 15, 1990 cpu 68030@20 mHz cost US$3770~$4570 1989 was Apple's 'Banner' year, having leapfrogged the opposition by introducing an 'all-in-one' computer (the SE/30) that is still used and sought after today (try that for PC comparisons), and the 2Ci (also used by many afficiandoes today, although not as 'collectible' as the SE/30) by late 1990, Apple had shifted into the 'milk the market' mode, introducing the LC. The LC was nothing more than a repackaged Mac2...4 year old dead end technology! the LC3 was also 4 year old technology, but at least it wasn't 'dead end' (until OS8) I'm not arguing the merits of Mac v PC here...I'm stating that Apple shortchanged its' user base by offering up rhinestones for the cost of diamonds because they had a lock on a user friendly OS. Were it not for Microsoft's legal department, we might still be subject to the bean counter mentality that brought Apple to it's knees. Congratulations on being one of the few who stuck with Apple despite being sold a product that was far less than it should and could have been for the same dollar (you're not alone...those who bought the 'Classic', 'Classic 2', and 2Vi/Vx were equally short changed) My own fervor for the Mac was sustained by my good fortune in having purchased an SE/30 for $2500 in 1992...a fabulous deal at the time, and which, with the addition of a Radius full page monochrome monitor attached to a PDS card in the unit, lasted me out until the clones hit the market in 1996 and brought some realistic prices to the Mac marketplace. Now THAT'S a RANT!! Cheers...Micahel -- Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
