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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: new Apple II? (was: Re: KansasFest reviews anyone??)
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Date: 9 Aug 90 16:14:08 GMT
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In article <43767@apple.Apple.COM> dlyons@Apple.COM (David A. Lyons) writes:
>Considering the statements made at KansasFest by Jane Lee (an Apple II
>Marketing type) and Ralph Russo (the head Apple II engineer type), the
>technical phrase I would use for your dealer is "off the deep end."

Like most Apple dealers..

The message I got from the Apple spokesmen at KansasFest was that Apple
is definitely going to make some firm decision about what to do with the
Apple II line within the next few months.  The statements were carefully
worded so as not to preclude any of the obvious choices, including
cutting back to the K-12 education market only, migrating to the Mac
line, stopping future Apple II CPU development, renewing Apple II CPU
development, going after the long-neglected personal computer user (as
opposed to just schools), etc.  I don't think we can really guess what
decision will be made at this point.