The price of the original Mac: An interesting fact

...that Edwin completely overlooked in his zeal to declare (wrongly) that the Mac only sold 50,000 units in 1984.

Steve Jobs was not the big bad guy when it came to original price of the Mac, nor was it anyone else within the original Apple culture.

No, it was the guy from the outside, John Sculley, who made that call:

"John Sculley's two sole contributions to the Macintosh project were the covert funding Macworld, of a Macintosh-themed magazine from IDG. The other was the Mac's price of $2,495, which he raised from $1,500 to maintain an exorbitant 55% profit margin."

So all you wintrolls who like to go on about how Jobs is the bad guy with respect to the price of the Mac can just shut up now.

-- Alan Baker Vancouver, British Columbia "If you raise the ceiling four feet, move the fireplace from that wall to that wall, you'll still only get the full stereophonic effect if you sit in the bottom of that cupboard."