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From: sk2f+@andrew.cmu.edu (Seth D. Kadesh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: CLUE: IT'S A HOME MACHINE!
Message-ID: <4aDvrMK00Ws185_UNi@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 3 May 90 05:12:56 GMT
Organization: Class of '92, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Just a bit fed up with a whole bunch of stuff.
Get a clue, people:

      The Apple II as a HOME MACHINE.

We're not asking for superior number crunching.
We're not asking for supersonic speed.
We're not asking for a machine that is the equal of the Mac IIfx!

There is a viable market for a reasonably priced, technically able
computer.  Apple has neglected the
low end user!  They have admitted so themselves!

And while it is Apple's decision whether or not to market a Rom 4 GS, or
an Apple II card nubus card, I think we have are perfectly justified in
expecting more from Apple.  There is nothing inherently BAD about the
65816 (in fact, Mensch [who doesn't seem to be exactly dependable...]
has plans for a 65832 (8/32 bit version of the 6502), and a something
else which would be a self contained computer-on-a-chip, to be used in a
parallel processing machine!)  The age of the machine doesn't matter -
WHAT MATTERS IS WHETHER OR NOT THE MACHINE DOES WHAT YOU NEED
IT TO DO!

Case in point: I was the witness to a computer salesman trying to sell a
Mac II to a student who
was looking for something to do WORD PROCESSING on!!  OVERKILL!!!!  I
could accomplish all
that on my GS!!!!

To all those people talking about cars: Do you sell your current year
car at the end of the year,
because you know that a newer one is coming out next year?!  I don't
think so.  WHEN do you buy a
new car - perhaps when your old one doesn't reasonably function
anymore??  And do they EVER, EVER stop servicing your car because it's
not new anymore??!!!  DO THEY EVER STOP MAKING
STEREOS, AND RADAR DETECTORS, AND BABY SEATS, AND BATTERIES?????!!!!  These
are all things one can easily expect to find on the market today.  So is
it too much to expect Apple to
provide support for us??!!  Is it too much to expect Apple to
acknowledge that they have more than
one computer family, and treat us accordingly instead of looking the
other way as if we were
illegitimate??!!

Look - the home computer idea - that's something that I personally see
as the niche (if you want to call it that) for the Apple II family. 
That, and low cost educational computers.

But support, and acknowledgement - that's something we all want, and are
owed in a big way.
  -seth kadesh
sk2f@andrew.cmu.edu
Y612SK2F@CMCCVB