Path: utzoo!utdoe!generic!pnet91!sb
From: sb@pnet91.cts.com (Stephen Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: A talk with an Apple person............
Message-ID: <191@generic.UUCP>
Date: 18 Nov 90 06:00:05 GMT
Sender: root@generic.UUCP
Organization: People-Net [pnet91], Etobicoke, ON
Lines: 37

joseph@porthos.rutgers.edu (Seymour Joseph) says:

>the 95% of users who use only //e software on their //gs' might just
>be the k-12 schools that were the backbone of the Apple // population.
[cut]
>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.
[cut]
>version of AppleWorks (not GS) or AppleWriter on it. These people
>have no Idea of what an Apple //GS is really capable of. Neither

B O Y ! Do I agree wholeheartedly.
I have an teacher acquaintance who has a bunch of IIGS's (he liked mine so
much that he got one for himself and a few for the classroom, when he saw what
it could do). He acknowledges that he uses mostly IIe software.

He contacted one of Toronto's largest (Toronto, Canada) Apple dealers to get a
demo of what educational software was avaialble for the IIGS. The rep that
visited the school was intent on doing something... apparently, it wasn't
demo'ing educational software for the IIGS.

I'll give you a hint: He brought Macs.

People use IIe software because they don't know what IIGS software is
available. And until recently (System Disk 5) most IIGS software ran like
molasses, so who'd want to use it anyway?  Only recently has the IIGS OS
finally become 'of age', and people ask why IIGS'ers use IIe software?

Inquiring minds want to learn more about the IIGS and IIGS software. How many
impediments must Apple (and their Agents) place in the road to discourage
them?? :(

Stephen Brown

UUCP: lsuc!graham!pnet91!sb
INET: sb@pnet91.cts.com