Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: New IIgs PRESS RELEASE!!! Message-ID: <8908220011.aa16705@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Date: 22 Aug 89 04:43:44 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 30 >I agree...When Apple first came out with the //gs, the II and II+ users for >all intents and purposes were deserted. Software support dropped to almost >zero, and everything was built ot written to use the extra 64K on the 80 >column card...What about the //+ users with 128K Ram cards.... Left out in >the cold....Now new ROM updates on the GS....where do the current //gs owners >get left...in the cold. It would seem to me that Apple should be a little >more careful with their current customer base.... I have yet to see some Just like all those POOR IBM-PC owners whose original PC's can't read 1.2 Mbyte 5.25 disks (forgetting for the moment that the drive is a white elephant) nor run OS/2. And just *think* of all those suckers who bought AT's who can't run Windows 3.0 and won't be able to run OS/2 2.0 or the version of Presentation Manager containing 50 outline fonts! Howcome, IBM doesn't offer those customers who made the PC what it is today an easy upgrade path to the PS/2? Shouldn't all those dedicated IBM owners who find that there won't be an i486 "daughter board" for their old PC's get truly miffed and buy a Macintosh? If you ARE disappointed with Apple, Commodore is on the verge of introducing a 68030 based Amiga for less than a Mac SE. 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] The opposite of artificial intelligence is genuine stupidity! -+- I don't speak for my employer, though I frequently wish that I could (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited)