Yeah, I was there. At the time, Apple was making a ton of money selling the bit, 6502 based computers.
These machines were a completely open book, featured slots to plug anything you could imagine into (and people did, using those computers as quite capable 8 bit workstations: test and measure, cross dev, business, publishing, and so many more...)
I will stop there as the story of the 8 bit Apple computers is well known.
I will say Jobs hobbled the 16 bit machine so it would not spank the Mac silly.
Delivering serious use value to users is what funded the Mac and then some.
The only people I knew who wanted a Mac back then were ones that would never write a program.
Funny enough, many of those went on to use the crap out of HyperCard.
These machines were a completely open book, featured slots to plug anything you could imagine into (and people did, using those computers as quite capable 8 bit workstations: test and measure, cross dev, business, publishing, and so many more...)
I will stop there as the story of the 8 bit Apple computers is well known.
I will say Jobs hobbled the 16 bit machine so it would not spank the Mac silly.
Delivering serious use value to users is what funded the Mac and then some.
The only people I knew who wanted a Mac back then were ones that would never write a program.
Funny enough, many of those went on to use the crap out of HyperCard.