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From: bsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (Bob Sherman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: DO NOT GET RID OF YOUR GS, I plead you! (was:Re: GS trade-in)
Message-ID: <1991Mar17.212203.7141@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
Date: 17 Mar 91 21:22:03 GMT
References: <387.apple.a2.net@pro-nbs> <13519@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <97282@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
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In <97282@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> meekins@apple.cis.ohio-state.edu (timothy lee meekins) writes:

>In article <13519@darkstar.ucsc.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:
>>
>>In article <387.apple.a2.net@pro-nbs> asong@pro-nbs.cts.com (Andi Song) writes:

><Whole bunch of stuff about selling IIgs' deleted>

>A lot of people are getting some pretty warped ideas. I've some similar trends
>on some local bulletin boards. Phrases such as "Oh I <think> Apple might be
>not making the //e anymore so I'm going to go buy an IBM." I took a Logic
>class once, and somehow that has to be fallacious argument. For example,
>I own a Buick Century; Buick quit making it but I didn't go buy a Ford
>the next day. The car fit my needs. It does what I want it to do. Just
>like my Apple II. These people used there Apple up until they heard a
>rumor, so they must have been using the computer until then, so why is it
>that it suddenly does't do what you need as soon as you hear a <rumor>.
>This doesn't make a d*mn bit of sense! I've never seen a bigger bunch of
>wimps in my life. If the II never did fit your needs, then why did you
>have it this long? Otherwise, why does it suddenly not fit your needs?
>Just remember, a large number of these <rumors> come from Mac users who
>don't want Apple spending money on the II.


>|/ Tim Meekins                  <<>> Snail Mail:           <<>>  Apple II  \|
>|>   meekins@cis.ohio-state.edu <<>>   8372 Morris Rd.     <<>>  Forever!  <|
>|\   timm@pro-tcc.cts.com       <<>>   Hilliard, OH 43026  <<>>            /|

Tim, you don't know how much I appreciate every word you have said above..

It is the most logical statement I have seen in a long time, and you said
it in better words than I have in the past used, but which lead to the
same conclusion..

Bottom line, if it does what you bought it to do, it will continue to do so
current model or not..

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