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From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: A low blow from Apple
Keywords: Apple II
Message-ID: <44681@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 11 Sep 90 01:16:01 GMT
References: <1990Sep11.000230.23140@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
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In article <1990Sep11.000230.23140@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> bsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (Bob Sherman) writes:
>I think Apple has delt the Apple II world a low blow this month. 
>
>They have announced that effective in October they will drop the 
>Apple II Technical Bulletin which has been published for the past
>couple of years, and replace it with the Educational Technical Bulletin.
>The reason being they want to dilute it with Mac items, or perhaps I
>should say over-run it with Mac items.. as they have already done
>with user group mailings and developer publications.
>
>However the sister publication "Mac Technical Bulletin" remains
>untouched, and continues to be published (without Apple II items, natch!)..
>
>Looks to me like one more vivid attempt to banish the words Apple II
>from a visible profile.. At this rate, pretty soon they will be calling
>the company "The Big Mac Computer Company" to further banish the word
>Apple.
>
>-- 
>   bsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu | bsherman@pro-exchange | MCI MAIL:BSHERMAN 

Couldn't have anything to do with the fact that it's very expensive and not
very helpful unless you're in a school lab situation or other heavy-duty,
lots of Apple IIs-together lab, where 99% of the customers for this publication
are?

No, that would be logic, and we can't have that in comp.sys.apple2.

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