From: utzoo!decvax!cca!David@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.micro
Title: random rumors
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.2308
Posted: Wed Jul 28 22:10:10 1982
Received: Thu Jul 29 06:09:17 1982


I read an interview of Steve Wozniak(sp?) co founder of Apple in the
latest issue of creative computing.  In it he describes his woes of
being an undergraduate at Berkeley (he has to take clases under a false
name) and he talks a little about the Apple IV.  The Apple IV is 68000
based (as was reported many times earlier) .  He said that they had done
some things to make in faster in transfering data through its 16 bit
data bus (I'm not sure I understood).  He said that it is in its final
stages but that the last 10% might take any amount of time.  Evidently
they are mostly finishing up on software (like windowing, word
processing, etc.)  It looks like Apple is going to generate a lot of in
house software and not rely on outsides vendors as it did with the Apple
II.  The only hardware not finished is the high density drives which he
said they've had problems with for the past two years.  (Is Apple really
making its own drives?)  The Apple IV looks very exciting and if they
can keep it at a reasonable price (under 6K) it should do very well.

I heard from someone that IBM came out with a 68000 box a couple of
weeks ago called something like ADVENTURE.  I haven't read anything
about it and so really doubt it but the source sounded very sure about
it. 

Replys to info-micro, not to me.  Let's generate more rumors on this list.