Path: utzoo!censor!geac!jtsv16!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Apple dealerships killing the Apple // series...... Message-ID: <8908042100.aa02855@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Date: 5 Aug 89 01:49:58 GMT References: Organization: The Internet Lines: 24 >branch of Clinton Computer), and overheard a sales person directing some high >school students towards the more expensive Macs, from the GS, since if they >were headed off for college, they'd need the power of the Mac, and that while Gee, and for the last six years I've been doing everything I (or most undergraduates who are not in accounting, finance, or engineering) might want to do on an unenhanced //e (with an occasional assist from the IBM mainframe for *really big* number crunching jobs that still would overwhelm a PS/2 or Mac. It's a good thing I didn't know I need more power; I might not have gotten ANYTHING done! ;-) Having a computer the college "supports" can be convenient, but it's rarely essential. Support these days is one (20 hour per week) graduate student looking after 4 computer labs with 30 systems each (some of us have less "support" than that). Murph Sewall Vaporware? ---> [Gary Larson returns 1/1/90] Prof. of Marketing Sewall@UConnVM.BITNET Business School sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu [INTERNET] U of Connecticut {psuvax1 or mcvax }!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL [UUCP] (203) 486-5246 [FAX] (203) 486-2489 [PHONE] 41 49N 72 15W [ICBM] -+- I don't speak for my employer, though I frequently wish that I could (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited)