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- From: vagrant@vpnet.chi.il.us (Guy Umbright)
- Subject: Re: The Apple II Now and Forever
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.031111.1932@vpnet.chi.il.us>
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- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 03:11:11 GMT
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- Roy Barrett (dsdd@okcforum.osrhe.uoknor.edu) wrote:
- : Matt, it's over at Apple Computer for us Apple IIers. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we
- : have great developers, but how is Apple gonna help us? No way. Who's gonna
- : revise our System Software? No one. The Apple IIgs will be dead by 1993, we
- : know it, it's a confirmed rumor, unless Apple changes their mind. At Apple,
- : we've reached the point of no return. (Or atleast with the IIgs, what are
- : they gonna do? Hold on to the IIe for a year and then drop it too?)
-
- : What about "Apple II Forever", Matt? What about that? Lack of support is one
- : thing, but having our forefathers lie to us is another.
-
- ^^^
- !!!
-
- What did Matt lie about? Dont go calling someone a liar just
- because you are pissed off about Apple. I am mighty pissed
- off as well but at least I understand that ITS NOT MATT'S FAULT.
- AT LEAST HE STILL SUPPORTS US.
-
- Dammit...I have never met Matt, but just by the time he spends
- in the RTC on GEnie and his post volume here, he obviously devotes
- a large amount of his time to us.
-
- I am just sick of everyone taking it out on him. I dont want one of
- the only resources we have left to us at Apple alienated.
- --
- : vagrant@vpnet.chi.il.us : A man said to the universe: : Stephen :
- : or vagrant@holonet.net : "Sir, I exist!" : Crane :
- : : "The fact has not created in me : 1899 :
- : Apple II Forever : a sense of obligation." : :
-