[Coco] The COCO vs The Apple II

[didier derny]

You know in 1980 with a commodore 8000 with a disk unit 8050 you had all you need for many activities

An apple II you had to stuff it with many boards to do the same
The apple was heating like hell, and had many problems due to the overheating :)

I'm probably not very objective :) I was working with commodore and for commodore :)
I must say that I discovered commodore machine simple because one of my friend add
An apple and a commodore 3000, the commodore was working all the time...
The apple was either crashed waiting to be repaired or gone to be repaired...

It is probable that people that started with apple IIe and later had better
Experience that me with the original  I and II+

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De : Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] De la part de Bill Loguidice
Envoyé : samedi 10 janvier 2015 17:04
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Objet : Re: [Coco] The COCO vs The Apple II

There are lots of factors, but those "primitive" things you mention really weren't all that primitive in 1977 (in fact, quite the opposite), and, as was stated, all of those features evolved over time. You also can't underestimate how important the available slots were in the Apple II series. That allowed for a LOT of flexibility and those slots were taken great advantage of.

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On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Chris Osborn <fozztexx at fozztexx.com>
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> On Jan 10, 2015, at 12:11 AM, Tony Cappellini <cappy2112 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > How did the Apple II being having such a primitive basic, DOS, & CPU
> outsell
> > and be so much more popular than the Coco?
>
> If you don’t like DOS, you could try ProDOS.
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