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From: gaynor@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Jim Gaynor)
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Subject: Re: U N C L E ! !
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Date: 7 Sep 90 12:54:03 GMT
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In article <3400@syma.sussex.ac.uk> paulr@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Paul T Russell) writes:
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>Just out of curiosity, why DID Apple kill off the AppleFAX ?
>Before our modems started keeling over they worked well. Seems
>a waste of R&D to me...

	Well, from what I understand, the AppleFAX modem may have been
a waste from day one.  I read an interview with Michael Spindler in
MacWorld late last year; in the interview he was asked what Apple's
biggest mistake on the market was.

	"The AppleFAX modem."

	<shrug>

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