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- From: ztsindi@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (The Independents - SUNY Buffalo)
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- Subject: From Apple Corp. To Us.
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- Date: 23 Aug 92 01:43:00 GMT
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- Howdy All,
- Forgive me if the following sounds preachy...
- For the last few months I've been seriously trying to sell off
- my IIgs. I've seen the Sun Set on the Empire so to speak. Watched as my
- product loyalty was rewarded with an Iron Boot To The Head from
- Apple Inc. (those of you in Apple who have worked so hard on the two
- : please don't feel flamed. e.g. Tim Swihart, Matt Deathrage, et.al).
- Now I see something genuily exciting happen.
- The GS and the other II family members are starting to emerge
- from the heavy dead hand of Apple Corp.
- As the day draws ever closer that Mac Inc. will stop making
- the II and drop it from its product line there is happening a changing
- of the gaurds. The II is becoming a shareware haven. Independent
- companies like A2 Central are taking up the slack in a mighty way
- and there is a stellar cast of programmers committed to the II like
- Ian Schmidt and Chiang and Gogul and many other wonderful shareware
- authors that make owning a IIgs a very worthwhile expereince. Thank
- you all.
- I'll be keeping my II. Hopefully I'll be making some
- contributions to the cause myself in the form of Shareware/PD. I've
- been working hard on Byteworks self teaching C course and have
- advanced modestly (though excitingly!). I see the II getting a
- fresh chance to show that it is what we've always known it was. A
- Supreme Platform for Creativity. Excuse my french (I hear the FTA
- laughing) but Fuck the Amiga. The GS is THE True Creativity Machine!!
- Lets make it easier to use with better and more sophisticated
- tools from US. The USERS. We are now the future of the GS. Hopefully
- Avatar will succeed. If not we can always make the GS more than it
- is. Woz helped create a machine thats much more extensible than Skully
- could ever possibly dream of. The Mac will fail to the IBM in the
- Corporate wars while we Chosen Few will continue the enjoyment of
- a true 'hackers' machine. To all IIGS lovers: Go forth and multiply,
- create unto each other shareware and gifts of pd. Maketh thy machine
- the envy of all who shall observe its exquisite functioning ;)
- - Buffalo Joe
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- "I knew Buffalo Bill...I was friends with Buffalo Bill...And you Mr.
- Skully are in for a big suprise!
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