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I remember salivating over the IIc ads in magazines at the time, also around the time I saw War Games. Don’t think I ever touched one though. And shortly after the Mac came out and a few years the Amiga so its days were numbered.


The Amiga line has the same 68K processors as the Apple Mac line. Just for 1/3rd the cost. For the price of a Mac 128 I bought an Amiga 1000 with 512K of RAM, 5.25" IBM compatible drive and Transformer PC EMulation software. The Mac had Mac Charlie to run PC software but it was too expensive and not as compatible as Transformer. I also got a 1200 Baud modem this was in 1986, the Amiga came out in 1985 based on Tripos and the Atari Lorrine project which dates back to 1980 and they didn't have the money to finish it. Workbench did trume preemptive multitasking and MacOS at the time did not it did task switching like MS-DOS.


This is a IIc+, not the original IIc. It came out much later than the mac and IIGS, but was sadly only 8-bit and did little but confuse the market.


Any true fan of classic Apple knows it’s //c, not a “IIc”!

There was also the original “Apple ][“ and “Apple ][+”. Only the IIe and IIgs were stylised with “II”.


I am strongly tempted to start calling it an Apple 2, now; to go with MacOS 10. (-:


Any true fan knows it's not a //c, it's a //c+.

Huge difference.


Although the Apple II series of computers provided the vast majority of revenue for Apple even well into the Mac era.




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