Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!LSUVM.BITNET!$CSD211 From: $CSD211@LSUVM.BITNET (Mark Orr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Some observations Message-ID: <9010291627.AA03471@apple.com> Date: 29 Oct 90 15:57:05 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 44 >In fact, I like it this way. I don't want an Apple IIgs+, because if one came >out, it would I would probably not be able to upgrade my current system a >(a ROM 01 GS). I would much rather AE or a similar company come out with a >better video card, etc., which will work with my machine. But this kind of >thing can only happen if we express our willingness to buy stuff. > >So what we should do (IMHO) is stop harassing Apple so much about a decision >that I suspect (fatalistic me) is irreversible and instead work on making >sure that third party software/hardware producers know that there is still >money to be made catering to our needs. Question: aren't you a little tired of having a machine that is strictly second banana in the eyes of its manufacturer (or in the case of the II, more like 13th banana). I imagine there are people out there that still get a lot of use out of their TRS-80s. If you want the II to die that way, fine... Apple will be glad to oblige. But when you go to a software store and see all that new software that your computer won't run...then you'll know what a mistake that would be. Even if there were a IIgs+ (which there won't be) no one would make you buy it. No one is saying that you have to buy the latest thing (even though most computer ads these days make it look that way), but the standards for computing (i.e. average systems) are changing and improving (i.e. almost all PC clones are now sold with VGA cards, hard disks, some kind of graphic user interface, and even improved sound capabilities - at prices that are hard to ignore). Either you grow or you die. Three possiblities for allieviating this situation: (1) Take what Apple gives you (i.e. Mac LC) (2) Buy an entirely different computer (i.e. PC, Amiga, NeXT) (3) Fight like hell It's a total myth that we cannot do anything. If Apple won't produce a new IIgs. Mabye Laser could...Perhaps we should be writing to them instead of the deaf ears at Apple. >Or that's how it seems to me, circa 1:52 a.m. > >'night >Bill Gulstad ---------------------------- Mark Orr ! $CSD211@LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU ! ----------------------------