Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!aplcen!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Apple II Obsolete? Message-ID: <12809@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 8 May 90 19:03:48 GMT References: <3960@pluto.dss.com> <1422@carroll1.cc.edu> <3964@pluto.dss.com> Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory Lines: 10 In article <3964@pluto.dss.com> lfischer@pluto.dss.com (Larry Fischer) writes: >but we are talking about OBSOLETE...I would say retired makes it obsolete... The rest of us were talking about the special category of "technical obsolescence", wherein a design becomes obsolete (unused) because it is supplanted by better designs. If you want to use the broader concept, then the Apple II is NOT obsolete, simply because it is still being used (see your dictionary definition of "obsolete"). However, that's not a useful measure of what we were concerned about, which is how well the basic design holds up as time goes on.