Given the huge number of LC-II's that were in schools, a lot of people, myself included likely have some nostalgic memories. They're compact and usable machines that can still run a fair bit of popular software from the era, 8MB was still considered a LOT of RAM at the time. While it bugs me that they were artificially crippled, I can understand Apple not wanting businesses to stuff a load of RAM into their cheap low-profit consumer machines rather than buying the high end more expandable and much more costly/profitable Macs to run Photoshop and CAD.