Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!ucbvax!UTCVM.BITNET!MQUINN From: MQUINN@UTCVM.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Apple's Non-Support of the GS Message-ID: <9010040214.AA00152@apple.com> Date: 3 Oct 90 22:26:35 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 44 On Tue, 2 Oct 90 21:01:43 GMT randy hyde said: >Why is everyone around here expecting Apple to support the >Apple II line? Is it Apple's responsibility to support a >product which obviously makes them very little money? Most of us think that the reason it makes them very little money is because they don't support it. We feel that, now, that they have a REALLY powerful and VERY expensive machine (Mac) that they are just going to abandon the II line and we are not very happy about that, considering the amount of money we've invested in our machines (nearly $10,000 in my case). >As for new software, I hear alot of complaining out there >why don't *YOU* write some of this software. Apple has Some of us are, but not all of us are programmers. Anyway, the complaint about the lack is software is that Apples 'lack of support' for the computer has all but forced most of the software companies to pull out of supporting the GS. >supported the machine. They've given us the video overlay >card and the SCSI adapter card. How many of you bought >these cards? Why should Apple spend lots of money promoting` I did... The SCSI card. The VOC is priced way too high though. two new products for 3 or 4 machines (was the //c+ ever dropped?) in four years is not a whole lot of support. >a machine which doesn't make them much money. If you want If they supported it, it probably would. >Apple to support the Apple II, go buy a bunch of machines! Get real! >If they start selling, they will start supporting them. If they start supporting them, they will start selling. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | | This is your brain... | BITNET-- mquinn@utcvm | | This is your brain on drugs... | pro-line: | | This is your brain on whole wheat.| mquinn@pro-gsplus.cts.com | |____________________________________|_______________________________|