Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!jh4o+ From: jh4o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeffrey T. Hutzelman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Laser Printer Woes (apple IIgs) Message-ID: Date: 5 Sep 90 01:04:25 GMT References: <63691@bu.edu.bu.edu>, <1990Sep4.174038.16050@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 35 In-Reply-To: <1990Sep4.174038.16050@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> In <1990Sep4.174038.16050@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Desdinova) writes: > It would seem that Apple Dealers are still pretty s**t stupid when it comes > to the Apple // line. Why??? How's this for an idea: > Someone send copies of 8/16 to all Apple Dealers. Inside have an article > detailing all of the myths of the Apple //, namely: > Won't work with a laser printer > too slow to do DTP anyway > Won't work with a hard drive... > Can't connect with a modem to an IBM or MAC (really! I've heard this one >many many times). > Anyway, someone would have to make a list, and it would be sort of like the > "Frequently Asked Questions" post which needs to be done here on csa2. > Is anyone game to tell the dealers where it's at? They're as much to blame > as anyone for the decline of the Apple //. At home, over the summer I worked at the local Apple dealership, and most of the salesmen knew what they were talking about most of the time. It's really not quite as bad as you make it out to be. However, I have heard some of the very same answers from some of the salesmen there. It's really sad, and something should be done about it. Perhaps we could compose a document, as suggested above, and send it to every Apple dealer in the nation, and see what the response is. ----------------- Jeffrey Hutzelman America Online: JeffreyH11 Internet/BITNET:jh4o+@andrew.cmu.edu, jhutz@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu >> Apple // Forever!!! <<