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This article is adapted from a posting on the Vintage
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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 LC II or the LC III. It was still a hell of a lot
better machine than the mid-90s PCs. After a six 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,
and then to an LC - and I really appreciated the difference!
original thread
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 LC III at the time?)
Let's see - LC stands for low cost:
Mac II, introduced March 1987,
CPU: 68020@16 MHz, US$5,500
Mac SE/30, introduced
Jan. 1989, CPU: 68030@16 MHz, US$6,500
Mac IIci, introduced Sept.
1989, CPU: 68030 @25 MHz, US$8,800
Mac IIsi, introduced Oct.
1990, CPU: 68030@20 MHz, US$3,770-4,570
Mac LC, introduced Oct. 1990,
CPU: 68020@16 MHz, US$2,500
Mac LC II, introduced March
1992, CPU: 68030@16 MHz, US$1,400
Mac LC III, introduced Feb.
1993, CPU: 68030@25 MHz, US$1,350
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 IIci (also
used by many aficionados 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 Mac II
- four year old dead end technology!
The LC III was also four year old technology when it was
introduced in 1993, but at least it wasn't a dead end (until Mac
OS 8).
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.
My own fervor for the Mac was sustained by my good fortune in
having purchased an SE/30 for $2,500 in 1992-- a fabulous deal at the
time, and which, with the addition of a Radius full page monochrome
monitor, lasted me out until the clones hit the market in 1996 and
brought some realistic prices to the Mac marketplace.
Cheers - Michael
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