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From: cbdougla@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Collin Broad Douglas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: A Letter From JJJ
Message-ID: <1990Oct15.071543.3222@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 15 Oct 90 07:15:43 GMT
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In article <9010150603.AA04956@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> bsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.
edu  (Bob Sherman) writes:
>
> From bsherman Sun Oct 14 18:59:19 1990
> From: Bob Sherman <bsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
> Subject: A Letter From JJJ 
> Return-Receipt-To: bsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu
> Reply-To: bsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu  (Bob Sherman)
> 
> This message was sent to me via e-mail by Jay Wilbur, Editor in Chief at
> Softdisk Publishing Company, publishers of Softdisk and Softdisk GS magazines.
> 
> Since he does not have net access at present, he asked that I post it on
> comp.sys.apple2 for him.
>        Bob Sherman
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> From:  Jay [76646,2631]
> Subj:  go for it
> 
> Let'er rip Bob! :)
> ------------------
> 
> After a few phone calls to various RELIABLE sources I've come up with
> some BAD news for the Apple II world.   Of course these are all
> rumors.  I HOPE!
> 
> Yes I know Apple Inc. is working to provide hardware additions and
> better system level software for existing users.  I salute those
> involved.  My question is: What would be wrong with providing a
> better CPU and actually making a minuscule attempt to sell it?
> 
> What ever happened to the computer for the rest of us?
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> This was written on my own free time and reflect my personal
> feelings.  So....the opinions expressed in this post do not reflect
> those of my employer or my fellow employees, but I bet they do!
> 
> 
> --new message--
> 
>
>-- 
>   bsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu | bsherman@pro-exchange | MCI MAIL:BSHERMAN 


  I'm too tired to flame at Apple so I guess I wont.  Besides, people in II
DTS don't deserve it and neither does Russo's group.  It's just I feel really
like Apple has deserted me.  Like what IBM did with the PC line (except they
came out with something at least relatively similar).  
  Apple wants all of us Apple II users to 'upgrade' to a Macintosh.  I'll 
  admit, the Macs coming out have excellent prices but by abandoning their
  Apple II users, they aren't going to make us feel all warm and fuzzy inside
  when they send their propaganda.  Someone told me that a Mac is less 
  expensive to build than a GS but those prices on the mac(classic,lc,si) are
  a little low for me to believe that Apple couldn't lower the price of the GS
  to make it attractive to the low end.

  Where does this leave me?  Well, it leaves me with a computer system that no
one will buy, and no one will make software for.  I really like my GS but 
without the support of the manufacturer, a computer's life is cut very short.

I'm not going to sell my computer.  I'm still going to learn to program and
maybe I can join the ranks of Andy Nicholas, Andy Mcfadden, Dave Lyons,
Jason Harper and the other people who still support and write software
for us (sorry if I didn't name you :)  ).  I've invested about $3400 in
my GS and now Apple wants me to forget all of it and get a Mac.  Well, I
don't think so.

Can anyone make suggestions on development software?  I think I'm going
to get Orca/C, Orca Pascal and Orca assembler.  Maybe after I learn a lot,
I can join FTA.

       Collin Douglas

       cbdougla@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu