Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Path: utzoo!utstat!philip
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: Apple Official Says "No New Apple II's"
Message-ID: <1990Oct27.053855.3115@utstat.uucp>
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 90 05:38:55 GMT
References: <39@generic.UUCP>
Organization: Statistics, U. of Toronto

In article <39@generic.UUCP> ronl@pnet91.cts.com (Ron Lewin) writes:
>From GEnie:
>Apple II RoundTable
>
>Category 5,  Topic 14
>
>Message 1         Wed Oct 24, 1990
>
>AIIDTS                       at 20:08 EDT
>
> 
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>Here's some clarification about the "phasing out the Apple II line" quote:

[clarification of a newspaper article regarding the fate of the AppleII
 by Bob Puette]

Hmm...this is possibly very discouraging. Now just to clarify, does Apple
consider the GS as part of the AppleII line? If so, then this quote from
Mr.Puette would seem to imply that Apple intends on producing a GS on
a board for a Mac( otherwise they would not be protecting GS users'
software investments,etc...).

As I understand it Mr. Puette was previously involved with the HP micro
division.

Years ago I was the proud user of a Unix personal computer- the transportable
HP Integral. This was one of the finest micros every made. I also used
a portable HP110 and an HP150(touchscreen).

It became clear to me, and I assume many others, that HP( at least the micro
division) had been taken over by non engineers. In fact they virtually
had to deengineer their computers in order to become just another IBM clone
maker, but a quality one( I am talking about their micro division). At the
same time the Integral was simply dropped. It was an odd situation as
IPC users couldn't upgrade to the workstation 300 line( the 9000 line).
And they couldn't downgrade to a Vectra( IBM clone). Very quickly the
computer simply went away( of course it had nowhere near the user base of
the GS). Through all of this I had a wonderful dealer, but to this day I
refuse to buy an HP product.

Assuming that Mr.Puette is the person who turned HP into a clone maker at
the micro level, it is hardly surprising to see this statement which is
being attributed to him.

Oh well, yet another company to stop worrying about...

Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto
philip@utstat.toronto.edu
[my opinions, and they are very deeply held when it comes to HP and now?]