Subject: Reply from Woz
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From: "Flag4" <flag4@bellatlantic.net>
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Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 21:16:14 GMT
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I sent the following e-mail to Steve Wozniak . . I'd like to share this with
the group. . .

Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 21:50:16 -0800
Subject: Re: A New Apple II
From: Steve Wozniak <host@woz.org>
To: Flag4 <flag4@bellatlantic.net>
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on 1999/12/23 1:53 PM, Flag4 at flag4@bellatlantic.net wrote:


   This may sound crazy, but how about creating a "new" Apple II, with
updated components, with open source firmware and operating system.  We can
lure the hacker community from Linux back to Apple where they belong !
   Ten years ago I wrote a letter to Volkswagen imploring them to
manufacture an up-dated Beetle.  Some people thought that was crazy.  I
think I was proven right on that one . . ..


(reply from Woz)
I hope that someone does this, but I'm sure that the current Apple wouldn't
allow it.