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- From: bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar)
- Subject: Re: Has the 2GS been dropped?
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- References: <3277@carroll1.cc.edu> <1992Aug9.160406.23045@ils.nwu.edu> <1992Aug13.011158.15716@edsi.plexus.COM> <1992Aug14.035916.3261@edsi.plexus.COM>
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- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 22:22:42 GMT
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- trimper@edsi.plexus.COM (Greg Trimper) writes:
-
- >scottba@edsi.plexus.COM (Scott Anderson) writes:
-
- >>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:
-
-
- >>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.
-
- So, Dave Lyons, Matt Deatherage, Tim Swihart, Mark Day, and others
- _don't_ work for "Apple II Continuing Engineering"? That's funny, that's
- what Tim said at KansasFest in front of most of the Apple II development
- community.
-
- >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.
-
- How do you know what's going to be on a price list that hasn't been
- released, yet?
-
- >3) Apple is now MORE than encouraging Schools, etc, to move to the Mac,
- > and discouraging Apple II purchases.
-
- They've been doing this for years. Schools still buy IIs cause they
- can get them by the truckload, cheaply.
-
- >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.
-
- Apple hasn't been doing this, either, for a long time as far as I know.
- Can you imagine people calling Apple main phones saying "I can't get
- my Squiggly init to work with my MenuReverser thingy." Which they would,
- cause Mac users are not in general accessible via the networks.
-
- >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.
-
- MacWeak, the mag that's been saying "The Apple II is Dead" for
- what, four years now? I think it's taken for granted that MacWeak
- is one of the most pathetic magaizines in existence, even in the Mac
- mag market.
-
- >Take my observations for what they are worth - $0.00.
-
- You said it, not I. :-)
-
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