Urban Arson

I tend to agree with you. The Apple II could be connected to any television monitor and had the modularity and expandability to still be useful for decades after its release.

Here is a website which is run completely by an Apple II server: http://www.ld8.org:6502/

The main importance of the Macintosh 128k was it's mainstream introduction of GUI (Graphical User Interface) and the mouse, which changed popular computing as we know it.

Apple's major mistake over the years was giving Steve Jobs the boot in the first place. Although I doubt he would have started NeXT or Pixar, which afforded Sir Tim Berners-Lee the power to create the "WorldWideWeb", and John Lasseter the freedom to warm our hearts with Toy Story. Steve Jobs' decade long "leave" from Apple also gave him the experience he needed to come back to Apple and make it the wonderful company it is today.

The Macintosh wasn't perfect, but it did give the world a perfect stepping stone into the future.

This was the worst error committed by Steve in his Apple World. Changing the wonderful Apple computer of the early 1980's, in which you could use any TV monitor and others flexibility, we found ourself boxed into a Macintosh. I said, at that moment, good by to Apple and 25 years later I came back only into the IPOD world.