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- From: trimper@edsi.plexus.COM (Greg Trimper)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Has the 2GS been dropped?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.035916.3261@edsi.plexus.COM>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 03:59:16 GMT
- References: <3277@carroll1.cc.edu> <1992Aug9.160406.23045@ils.nwu.edu> <1992Aug13.011158.15716@edsi.plexus.COM>
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: Enterprise Data Systems Incorporated, Appleton WI
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- scottba@edsi.plexus.COM (Scott Anderson) writes:
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- >The Developer (that I didn't want to believe in the first place) is
- >trimper@edsi.plexus.com. Nail him!
-
- Scott, you should know that such a post is LIBELOUS and likely to get
- me very mad at YOU, and even legally in trouble, if I am bothered any
- more by it. I'm being serious here.
-
- I'll repost what I sent a person in mail, and have formally requested that
- scott cancel this post. If he does not cancel his post, I will speak
- to site administrators, then higher up, but I hope that won't be neccessary.
-
- To sum up, my OBSERVATIONS on the II line are such:
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-
- >information that the IIgs was dead? I recently read a post by a IIgs user who
- >said he got this information from you. Please clarify your sources so we can
-
- No sources, really, just some observations:
- 1) Apple has laid off or moved to other projects all the Apple II people
- where they are no longer officially Apple II project people.
- 2) The IIe and IIgs are not on the upcoming educational price list -
- neither are any 68000-based Macs (Classic, PB100,). Futhermore, upcoming
- Mac system software will not support the 68000's.
- 3) Apple is now MORE than encouraging Schools, etc, to move to the Mac,
- and discouraging Apple II purchases.
- 4) A call to Apple for info on our single IIgs left at the university to
- ask a floppy drive configuration problem (Duo Disk, SCSI disk, and
- 2 daisychained 800k disks don't all like each other) recommended that
- we seek local, independent help, and didn't offer any, as they had in
- years past.
-
- All of these observations, and rumour in MacWeek, schools, etc, lead me
- to believe that the IIgs and the IIe are slated for the cutting block
- this fall. The market has been induced away.
-
- Take my observations for what they are worth - $0.00. I'll ask that
- scott NOT use me as a ref without my permission.
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- P.S. You do NOT have permission to post any element of my
- private email to you in any form. I do NOT have time to get embroiled
- in a stoopid II/Mac/Amiga/IBM etc flame war. Thank you.
-
- Greg Trimper trimper@edsi.plexus.com
-