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From: steffan@pro-angmar.UUCP (Steven Mesnick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Apple II-series support
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Date: 25 Mar 90 05:40:46 GMT
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Okay, I'm not a computer-person at all, just a user with a //e, but this talk
of II-vs.-Mac support really has me amused. Sure, there's a modicum of support
for the II -- *IF* by II you mean IIgs. The GS is a whole different universe
to a IIe user. Some years ago, when my II+ developed problems, I decided to
buy a new IIe. This was when the 128K "platinum" IIe's had just come out. But
could I find one? No way. In fact I was actually LAUGHED AT by a couple of
dealers, who all wanted to sell me a Mac, or a GS. When I explained that I had
a nice comfortable bunch of peripherals and software and just wanted a new
stripped IIe, I was told that they were only selling them to schools...in lots
of a gross, I imagine. And there is *NO*, I mean *NO* support in software or
hardware for a pre-GS Apple II machine, with the possible exception of Applied
Engineering, God bless 'em. (They still sell 16K cards for Pluses!) Apple
Computer doesn't want to acknowledge that there are still IIe's out there;
neither do the magazines. What good are Finder tricks and NDA's and CDA's and
GS/OS utilities to a bloke like me? You call *that* II-series support?

Steve Mesnick
pro-angmar!steffan@alphalpha.com