Mac128, you read FAR too much into what I am saying. I've seen Steve's presentation dozens of times, I've read Andy's articles, I bought his book, etc...

I agree with most of the things you are saying, though I'm not about to suggest that Andy wrote that article to say, "I told you so" to Steve Jobs.

The Mac was revolutionary. I never made any statements about slow sales. The comparison I made with the 512ke was to illustrate how much MORE you could to with the extra memory.

All I really ever said was that Steve Jobs needed more RAM than the standard Mac offered to run his presentation at the shareholders meeting (yes, we are referring to the same one).

Once we integrated all the pieces together, the demo didn't come close to be able to run on a standard Macintosh. Fortunately, we had a prototype of a 512K Mac in the lab, so we decided to cheat a little (there were only two in existence at the time) and use that for the demo, which made things fit.

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Also, please don't assume that I am looking at things from a 2007 perspective, my roots are very much in the past... If anything I look at things from a 1990 perspective.