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- From: joe_luzzi@QMBRIDGE.CALSTATE.EDU ("Joe Luzzi")
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: misc replies
- Message-ID: <9212142250.AA05394@apple.com>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 22:38:04 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- Reply to: RE>misc replies
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- !>If Apple had introduced
- !>the Mac LC w/Apple IIe card instead of the IIgs, I'd probably
- !>own one today. But, they didn't and Apple has paid dearly for
- !>this mistake with unhappy Apple II and IIgs users who are feeling
- !>abandoned.
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- >>Matt has made this point before: Suggesting that Apple should've come
- >>out with the LC instead of the IIGS is ridiculous. In 1986, the
- >>68020-based Mac II was not even out, and it cost far more than the LC.
- >>If Apple could make the LC at the price it does today 6 years ago, they
- >>would have. It's like saying "If only
- >>the IIGS had come out in 1980, with the equivalent of System 6.0, with
- >>a 14 MHz 65816..."
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- It's not ridiculous. It's not my problem whether it was possible for
- Apple, or not. (which I don't believe anyway) Apple's the one that wanted
- to shift gears and get everyone to buy Macs as their NeXT computer.
- Instead of leading us along with the IIgs, they should have built a Mac
- like the LC with color, that ran Mac and IIe software. (Mac is the computer
- for the rest of us, right?) I don't care if the 68020 was out yet. A
- 68000 would have been fine. Providing a bridge to their new line of
- computers is a positive thing to do. It shows that the company values my
- business and wants me to continue doing business with them. If Apple could
- have gotten most of the Apple II camp to purchase Macs, think of the
- revenue they would have had! Instead most users went elsewhere (MSDOS,
- AMiga, etc...). Almost 90% of the software that ran on an IBM 8086 will
- run on an IBM 80486. An upgrade path to the Mac is a positive thing to do.
- The Apple IIgs is not what I call an upgrade path. The Mac and the IIgs
- each have their own character. I like the IIgs much better than the Mac.
- I like the Mac too, but the IIgs supported me when I had tons of old
- software from my IIe days. All I'm saying is that a bridge machine was
- needed for Apple II users years ago. The LC idea is too late. If I'm
- being ridiculous, then why are their so many unhappy Apple II users?
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- Joe M. Luzzi
- CSU Fullerton
- joe@fullerton.edu
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