Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!paz.geology.wisc.edu!uwvax!rang From: rang@cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Apple's committment to the // line Message-ID: Date: 14 Oct 89 02:09:25 GMT References: <8910120739.AA17465@trout.nosc.mil> <21038@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Sender: news@spool.cs.wisc.edu Organization: UW-Madison CS department Lines: 26 In-reply-to: jma@beach.cis.ufl.edu's message of 13 Oct 89 00:56:47 GMT In article <21038@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> jma@beach.cis.ufl.edu (John 'Vlad' Adams) writes: >Is Apple truly going to support the // series still? I think they are. The Mac is rapidly becoming a very high-end computer ($5,000-7,500 range for the newer models). The //gs is still a money-maker for Apple, too (somewhere around $1,000,000,000 last year is the figure which sticks in my head from somewhere). The Mac is not really much of a home computer--it takes *work* to program it, and the available software, while powerful, can take more time to learn than that on the ][ line. I know several people who use AppleWorks in preference to any Mac word processors; it does what they need.... It seems to me that the Apple ][ series is rapidly becoming (again) one of the few computers which is both affordable for families, has a lot of fairly inexpensive software, and is easy to "hack" on. I don't think Apple is going to give it up for a long time yet.... Anton Disclaimer: I don't know what Apple's plans are; I've just played with ][s & Macs for 10 years.... +----------------------------------+------------------+ | Anton Rang (grad student) | rang@cs.wisc.edu | | University of Wisconsin--Madison | | +----------------------------------+------------------+