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If you worked in the Apple/// Engineering Group, you must know Wendell Saunder (sp) and Wil Houd. I bought an Apple ][ in 1978 and it (and all Apple ][s of that era) had the same problem with chips walking out of their sockets due to expansion and contraction from heating and cooling.

dicklacara had this to say on May 21, 2008 Posts: 4
May 19, 1980: Apple III. Worst. Apple. Ever.
Another FWIW... one of the names that Dave was considering for what would become ThinkTank, was... Vista. (now there's some ancient history).

dicklacara had this to say on May 19, 2008 Posts: 4
May 19, 1980: Apple III. Worst. Apple. Ever.
Mmmm... the Apple/// wasn't so bad. I owned computer stores (primarily Apple) in the 1970-80s. When we were asked to present our case to IBM to carry the PC, we made our presentation on an Apple/// using a forerunner of Dave Winer's ThinkTank. The IBM exec was quite impressed with the Apple///, ThinkTank & us... we got the dealership. FWIW, we carried the Apple/// in a Apple/// Carrying Case (made by apple) on the plane from SF to Boca-- not quite a portable, maybe a transportable!

dicklacara had this to say on May 19, 2008 Posts: 4
May 19, 1980: Apple III. Worst. Apple. Ever.
The other insider joke that was making the rounds at that time: "What's the difference between Apple and the Boy Scouts... One of them has adult leadership!"

dicklacara had this to say on Apr 11, 2008 Posts: 4
April 10, 1985: Jobs Sculley Versus Steve Jobs: It's Either Him or Me!