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From: jeffn@pro-europa.cts.com (Jeff Noxon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple IIGS
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Date: 11 Nov 89 02:55:12 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from cunixc!cunixb.cc.columbia.edu!yk4@columbia.edu

When I was in Hong Kong this summer, I didn't see a single GS.  I saw tons of
clones, AT and IIe, ripoff cards of this and that, the kind of stuff I always
see when I go there.  I saw a few Macintoshes, but not many.  I spent a lot of
time roaming around in the Golden Shopping Centre, and I overheard someone
mention a GS once.

I bet if the GS was cloneable, you'd see people with them.  But it's not, so
there are still lots of faithful II+ and IIe users.

It's a really neat place to go.  I wonder how many heads would turn if I
brought my GS in and showed the II+ users the Nucleus demo :-)

PS- The only thing I have seen a GS do in an Apple dealer lately is display
this all too familiar message:

___________________________________
                                  
                                   @____________________________________
                         Check Startup Device!

I like to believe that the employees in Apple dealerships are retired burger
flippers at McDonalds.

Jeff

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