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->socking it to the customer when a new product is released is a tradition in Cupertino dating back to the Apple III.

Remember the original 128K Macintosh cost more than $2400 and it was close to useless.

____ Does anyone know at what point it was that Apple blew up after firing jobs and had to call him back. was it before or after this?

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> Remember the original 128K Macintosh cost more than $2400 and it was close to useless.

As opposed to the other 68K offerings at the time it was pretty good, it brought window managed user interfaces to the masses (rather than those Apollo workstations that probably nobody remembers).

The ST was a game changer price wise but that 'useless' 128K Mac in many ways wrote history.

I'd never heard of the Apple III.

My question was where it fitted in Jobs 86 departure from apple.

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