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- From: purp@wixer.cactus.org (Jim Meyer)
- Subject: Yay, Apple! (was Re: spurious 'This is not a Macintosh disk')
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.171119.28164@wixer.cactus.org>
- Organization: Real/Time Communications
- References: <C0G0rM.B7M@ipsa.reuter.com> <David_Goldsmith-060193144300@david-goldsmith.taligent.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 17:11:19 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- In article <David_Goldsmith-060193144300@david-goldsmith.taligent.com>
- David_Goldsmith@taligent.com (David Goldsmith) writes:
-
- >In article <C0G0rM.B7M@ipsa.reuter.com>, jhs@ipsa.reuter.com (Henri
- >Schueler) wrote:
-
- >> I have been getting spurious alerts. The alert is the one you get when
- >> you insert an unformatted disk, or a non-MAC disk into the machine. i.e.
- >> This is not a Macintosh disk:
- >> Do you want to initialize it?
- >>
- >> The machine is a Quadra700 with 7.0.1+tuner.
- >
- >This is a bug in the SCSI Manager on the Quadras; it happens on the 900
- >also (don't know about the 950). It is fixed in System 7.1.
-
- Let's hear it for Apple, the marketing ghods, who tell us "You don't
- HAVE to upgrade to 7.1..." Of course, they neglect to finish the
- sentence, "...unless you want your computer to work correctly."
-
- Yay, Apple! It's so nice to see that when you swapped Sculley for Jobs
- you changed your focus from customer to profit. At least this way, once
- you've alienated all of "the rest of us," you'll have the capital to
- start a foods division and compete with Pepsico.
-
- --Jim, still peeved at the charge for a bunch of bug fixes and no major
- improvements.
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- | Julien Finaudere' de la Main Pourpre | Jim Meyer DoD#680 |
- | Collegium Turris Animarum, Bryn Gwlad | purp@wixer.cactus.org |
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- | If no one else listens to my opinions, why should you? |
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