Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!well!avery
From: avery@well.sf.ca.us (Avery Ray Colter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: BITNET mail follows
Message-ID: <17876@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 8 May 90 02:06:23 GMT
References: <9004280206.AA19006@apple.com>
Lines: 25

ENT0764@OUACCVMB.BITNET writes:

>They told me if it was not because of this problem, they would have
>happily bought a GS instead of IBM because it is such a nice computer.
>They did not understand why this kind of problem happened to a nice
>computer.

I can hear all the chubby women reading this, and reciting the old saw,
"But she has such a pretty FACE......"

That's actually not a bad analogy. There's nothing intrinsically wrong;
they just don't get any support from any influential group anywhere.

The question is, what are Apple II users and chubby women going to do about it?

>It was a sad scene that when I went to software stores, all I saw were
>software for IBM and Amiga but few for the II and almost none for the GS.

Egghead's Apple II series stuff is 50-50 between //e and //GS.
They are also flooded with MSDOS and Macintosh stuff though.

-- 
Avery Ray Colter    Internet: avery@well.sf.ca.us | {apple|hplabs}!well!avery
     o/~ Mama, mama, mama, keep those skinny girls at home,
         o/~ `Cause this skinny boy wants a BIG FAT BLONDE!   - The Rainmakers