[Swordmaker]

That point is that Apple wasn't going to lift a finger to get their computers to talk to an IBM mainframe. It fell to 3rd party vendors to make that happen. IBM didn't need to get cards from IRMA - they built their own, and would sell you a PC that would do it right out of the box.

Your point is totally invalid because they did "lift a finger" and their computers did indeed have the software and the means to connect to the IRMA boards. You love to nitpick at things you don't know. . . but we do. Apple made the interfaces from the Apple to the devices. SHEESH!

I am STILL waiting for your evidence that Steve Jobs said that Apple would not do anything to connect to the rest of the computing world. . .

[tacticalogic]

Your point is totally invalid because they did "lift a finger" and their computers did indeed have the software and the means to connect to the IRMA boards. You love to nitpick at things you don't know. . . but we do. Apple made the interfaces from the Apple to the devices. SHEESH!

Apple gets credit for that because they made the bus slot the card went in?