> It's sort of like, handing all your
> credit cards to your ex-wife. RHB
>
> Computers depreciate in value faster than yer wife's sex drive after the
> wedding cake's been eaten...8>)
> I would say, "Sex and
> riding on the back of a motorcycle; that's what women do before they get
> married. Dagger looks.
It's great comments like these that have made this a fun topic. For what it's worth, I
became an Apple VAR in early '92 and converted "from
the dark side" as they say. Still a big Unix user, though, I did see how the Mac
desktop paradigm was substantially better than Windows 3.0
(et al). Anyway, being a dealer, I recall having dabbled with several new Mac models,
some of which have been maligned. Not recalling the
exact order these came out, though, I do remember having a Color Classic and a IIvx
before I upgraded from the IIvx to the Centris 650. At
the time, I really wasn't aware of any "legacy" brick walls with the CC and IIvx. I
just saw them as being reasonably priced and having a
purpose in a home or other lower-end environment. If I recall, you could install up to
68MB of RAM in the IIvx, which was a lot more than
you thought you'd need anytime soon. In fact, I had 24MB in the Centris 650 for years
before it was retired for a PowerTower Pro, later
joined by an iMac and a Cube.
I suppose someday people will be speaking ill of my Cube, but I will always think of
it as both an engineering wonder and a work of art. If
only I could quiet-down those 3 10,000 RPM Ultra-SCSI drives in the PowerTower Pro, I
would have no complaints about it. Anyway, I think
the Cube may have been Job's wake-up call that not everything he touches will turn to
gold (at least as far as the marketplace in general
is concerned).
So if the IIvx showed the market that Apple was listening and creating new models at
lower prices, was that so bad? Even if the astute
person knew that the technology was essentially the same as a IIci, perhaps many did
not (nor really care). Granted, you would have wanted
Apple to move a little faster, but maybe this was the first step in turning the big
tanker around.
--Random thoughts. :-) Tim
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