Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!porthos.rutgers.edu!joseph From: joseph@porthos.rutgers.edu (Seymour Joseph) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: A talk with an Apple person............ Message-ID: Date: 16 Nov 90 20:25:47 GMT References: Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 26 Seth, the 95% of users who use only //e software on their //gs's might just be the k-12 schools that were the backbone of the Apple // population. Many of them started using Apple //s long before the //GS and when they upgraded to //GSs they used much of the same software on the new machines. I know a local high school that is running Apple Pascal v1.1 on them now. Since a great deal of the volume of educational software was never specifically converted to the //GS, many schools cotinue using them as fast //es. I run a users group in NJ and you would be AMAZED at the number of calls I get from people who have 256k or 512k GSs and run some old version of AppleWorks (not GS) or AppleWriter on it. These people have no Idea of what an Apple //GS is really capable of. Neither does much of the press. When you see the Apple //GS being defamed in print, it is usually by someone who sees the GS as a glorified, overpriced //e. I still get suprised looks from dedicated Macheads when I show them what "state of the art" Apple //GS software actually looks, and works like on a reasonably configured Apple //GS (Reasonably configured = 2 Mb ram + SCSI hard disk) Seymour Joseph Coordinator ACGNJ Apple II Users Group