Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!crdgw1!argentina From: rankins@argentina (raymond r rankins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Duet...WHY NOT?! Keywords: Revive the GS! Message-ID: <14757@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 12 Dec 90 13:19:57 GMT References: <4216@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <1990Dec12.063443.28466@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: rankins@argentina (raymond r rankins) Organization: Replace me with your organization Lines: 28 In-reply-to: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) In article <1990Dec12.063443.28466@nntp-server.caltech.edu>, toddpw@nntp-server (Todd P. Whitesel) writes: >not true -- the LC's //e card runs at 1 or 2 mhz. It's soldered though (i.e. >you can't replace it with a Zip Chip) but the //e card is really just a >checklist item. It's only real purpose is to lever the Mac into schools and >in doing so kill the GS on its last battlefield. Whether it will or not is >still a question. Apparently, schools are going for Macs. Some are switching to IBM, but most are staying with Apple and buying Macs. I was talking to a teacher who teaches computers at a local high school, and she said they already had replaced a number of IIGS's with Macs. (she's a IIGS owner and really likes the machine, so apparently she wasn't involved in the decision to buy Macs) She says her school district is planning on buying Mac LCs once they are available, and no longer plan on buying any Apple II hardware because they can now get a Mac for the same price or less. I got the impression that this is the consensus at most other schools as well. It appears that Apple has got the education market pretty well brain washed into buying whatever Apple wants to sell them (hmmm... remember the famous 1984 Apple commercial? :^) Ray Ray Rankins |(518) 387-7174 | INTERNET: rankins@argentina.crd.ge.com 2 Moonglow Rd. |(518) 583-3320 | COMPUSERVE: 71131,3236 Gansevoort, NY 12831 | | AmericaOnline: RayRankins | GEnie: R.Rankins