Msg: 1512 *Conference*
02-05-92 23:00:15
From: RICK LOPES
To : RICHARD HANSON
Subj: REPLY TO MSG #1506 (F KEYS)
Did the Lisa preceed the IBM PC? My memory may be faulty, but as I recall, there was the Apple II and IBM saw a possiblity of jumping on the VisiCalc bandwangon. Then came the PC and Apple resonded with the Apple III which flopped. Enter Xerox, the $10,000 Lisa and $3,000 125K Mac with no F Keys. The Mac was a hobby of mine from afar (since it was soooo expensive) and while I loved the idea of the GUI, I also remember even at that ancient time, a irrational hatred for Big Blue and PC-DOS.