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From: pa1285@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (David L. Brown)
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Subject: Re: Apple II High-Speed SCSI Card Released
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Date: 15 Mar 90 23:34:50 GMT
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Okay, first off, I'm posting this using my roommates account, send
all flames/replies/comments to nlenz@ucsd.edu

Now we're off... I want to start by saying that I've been waiting
with baited breath for this SCSI card to come out ever since I heard
the rumors about it. I would have never believed, though that we'd
get up to a meg a second!! Golly, Beav, that mighty quick! Plus,
Apple provides a backup program with the card that supports resource
forks. Awesome! Plus support for Apple's SCSI scanner and Tape
Backup. I mean, this is like Christmas (in a weird sort of way, I
guess). 

*** Flame On ***

Now the bad part... I intended to go out and buy this card...
the press release said that it would be available at authorized
Apple resellers on the 15th, right. Well, out of the 4 or 5 Apple
dealers I called in the San Diego area (that's how many I found in
the phone book) none of them had the card in stock, and, in fact,
only _one_ of them even knew that the card existed, and he said it
would be at least a month before they had it in stock (this is at
Sun Computers, they are a chain, so that could be a reason... they
probably have their own distribution channels). I can't believe
this, it's not like San Diego is some small town in the middle of
nowhere! I'm sure that when the new Mac is announced, I'll be able
to walk into any Apple dealer the day of the anouncement and buy one
(IF I had that kind of cash :). I thought that the whole reason for
not announceing products before they are available was so that
people could BUY the product when it was announced, and not wait and
pester their dealers "When is so and so gonna be out?" I'm going up
to LA this weekend, and hopefully I'll be able to find a dealer
there that has an "Apple II High-Speed SCSI Card" in stock. As far
as I'm concerned, the card still isn't available since *I* can't
find an Apple dealer who even knows what it is (except for the one
guy at Sun :).

*** Flame Off ***

Feeling peeved, and like a little kid who wants his new toy, and
wants it _NOW_... I'm...

Nick Lenz
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