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From: fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Andy McFadden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Barney Stone's comments on meeting with apple
Summary: some minor comments
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Date: 25 Mar 90 08:54:47 GMT
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In article <30*delaneyg@wnre.aecl.ca> delaneyg@wnre.aecl.ca (Grant Delaney) writes:
[actually, Barney Stone writes:]
[snip]
>The good news is that Apple is not about to drop the Apple II from its
>product line.
> 
>(Please read that again. Now memorize it, so you can quote it whenever some
>less-informed person tries to convince you otherwise!)

For everybody who didn't want to wade through a 170 line message, that's
the most important fact to be found.

[snip]
>The bad news is that there will be no major new push to market the Apple
>II. Apple's future is clearly the Macintosh, and you might as well get used
>to it. As Dave Hancock said, "Our (Apple's) whole purpose in life is to
>bring the very edge of technology to people."

This quote takes second place.  Hancock makes it sound like altruism.

[snip]
>If you need "the very edge of technology", I'm afraid you'll have to buy a
>different computer. But then, you already knew that, didn't you?

Yes Barney, we knew that.  It's been rammed down our throats by dealers
and advertising campaigns.  I almost feel bad buying Apple peripherals,
since the profits are funneled primarily into Macintosh development.

>Barney Stone, for the Apple II Developer's Association

It's almost funny in a way.  Here I am at UC Berkeley, home of protests
over animal rights, legalization of drugs, affirmative action, police
brutality, the environment, nuclear power, and many other causes.

But the only cause I really fight for is keeping a computer alive.

I grew up with an Apple II, and I'll grow old with one.  Whatever other
computers I own, I'll always keep this one.

-- 
fadden@cory.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden)
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