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From: jan@bagend.uucp (Jan Isley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Will Mac's go the way of Apple II's
Summary: of course they will
Keywords: sh*tforbrainscryingaboutnothavingthelatesttechnologyforfree
Message-ID: <1990Oct5.052937.12264@bagend.uucp>
Date: 5 Oct 90 05:29:37 GMT
References: <143400015@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Followup-To: bit bucket
Organization: 1 Bagshot Row, the Shire
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Of course this is a flame, read the subject line.
How could it not be a flame?

In article <143400015@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> wogg0743@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>Hey, Mac-dudes!  You all should be rallying behind the Apple II and complaining
>about Apple's failure to support it.  Why?  Because if Apple will do what it is
>doing to its namesake, it will do the same thing to the Mac in five years or so

I get so tired of this crap. It really is difficult to imagine how some people
could ever be satisfied.  You probably complain at MacDonalds that their cokes
are not refilled for free.

>Think about it.  Don't believe me?

What I don't believe is why you care.  The people who bought a computer did
so for a reason.  The computer satisfied that purpose *and* still does.
The *only* case in which this is not true is if your computer's job is to
be state-of-the-art.  No computer, no anything can be that.

>Well, any of you Mac +/SE owners feel like you're being properly supported?

Damn straight.  I bought a good piece of hardware at a fair price.  It worked
straight out of the box and still does everything I bought it for and more.

>Can you upgrade to color?  Is Macintosh Inc. moving towards the Mac II and
>forgetting its roots?  Hmm.  MacClassic, not withstanding, sounds like it.

Yes, I can upgrade it.  All it takes is money.  That is reasonable.  Color
costs more money.  Faster cost more money.  Everything costs more money.
Just what is your point?  Do you think that IBM is going to give me a color
monitor or a 386 to put in my original 64k PC?  Of course not.  They do not
sell upgrades for them either.  But upgrades are available, so are new
computers.

>When NeXT went color, they made it possible to upgrade (or rather it will be).

So f****ing what.  So buy a NeXT and go moan and bitch in comp.sys.next about
why they did not have a floppy or why they ....

>Also, Macintoshes keep going through different models.  Is there an upgrade
>policy?  Can a Mac IIci become a Mac IIfx?  Why not?  How long until Apple
>starts ignoring 68020 users?

And if Apple did not come out with new models, you and everyone else would
be crying your eyes out that they were not coming out with new models, while
IBM ate them alive in the market place.

>flame flame flame
>
>You get the point, of course.  If we can't trust 'em, can you?  Hell, no.
>You're as good as f**ked now.
>
>Bill Gulstad

Yes, Bill, *you* are f***ed.  Go back to the hospital and ask for an
upgrade, your processor is too slow.  All it takes is money.

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