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From: mmunz@pro-beagle.cts.com (Mark Munz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: MacLCw/IIe emulator
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Date: 20 Oct 90 23:21:01 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from dcw@lcs.mit.edu


-> Obviously, this isn't the solution for all of us. On the other hand,
-> it *does* make a good first time computer as it costs about as much to
-> bring this thing up to speed as it does a GS. It's a mac, which is
-> what Apple wants everyone to have in the future (like it or not - I'm
-> not arguing about that). It runs older // stuff and it's pretty
-> flexible (although not very expandible). Adding RAM is easy, and the

A Mac is what Apple Inc. wants everyone to have in the present. (Just like
they wanted everyone to have Apple II's years ago)

In a few years (4, maybe 5 tops) Apple will introduce the machine that is
designed to kill the Macintosh and then you'll see those Mac owners scream and
moan about Apple's lack of support -- heck, Apple II owners knew that one
years ago (when Apple just *forgot* what the Apple II was).

If Apple wants its customers to buy new machines in the future, they need to
show complete support for existing machines). Apple barely acknowledges that
the Apple II exists (the computer that kept them alive for so many years while
the Macintosh struggled) -- and when they do, its with the mention of the Mac
LC... a computer that is announced *SIX* months before it is released.

Apple's marketing folks really need to go back to school. The fact that Apple
has killed a good hunk of Mac and Apple II sales for Christmas better wake
up the stockholders (since folks will wait to see the Mac LC & IIe emulator,
due to arrive in Jan, Feb 1991).

Mark Munz
(These are my own opinions, but you can use them too, if you want!)