Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!herald.usask.ca!alberta!edson!news From: jpenne@ee.ualberta.ca (Jerry Penner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: hello, people Message-ID: <1991Apr6.013344.690@ee.ualberta.ca> Date: 6 Apr 91 01:33:44 GMT References: Sender: news@ee.ualberta.ca Organization: University of Alberta Electrical Engineering Lines: 33 In article SHBOUM@MACALSTR.EDU writes: >Adam Ford writes: > >> Apple has now discontinued production of the //c+, which leaves us with ONE >> Apple // computer.. The //gs.. > >> I don't make 'em up, I just report 'em.. > >> And if you feel like checking my sources, it's Don Lancaster in the "Ask >> the Guru" column of this month's Computer Shopper... > > Computer Shopper before it turned into PC Shopper last year was >perhaps one of the best sources for Apple II information that I had access >too. Don Lancaster is one of the big Apple II gurus still left. He was the >first one who went to Apple and told him that he could use a laswerwriter >with his IIe and Applewriter and do the most amazing things with postsript. > > He also recently published earlier this year that Apple was dumping >all of the techinal manuals for the GS, selling them at low prices just to >get rid of them. I didn't like that sign either... > > - Hal Lately, I think Don's been bought out or lost his interest in supporting the Apple II. I don't see any signs that Addison-Wesley has dropped the Apple Technical manuals. Since Don writes his columns about 3-4 months before publication, I question his sources even more. He is a guy who has great charisma but some of his ideas are plain out to lunch. (Some of them are really great too). -- ------------- Jerry Penner alberta!bode!jpenne Edmonton, Alberta, Canada "Old error in new dress is ever error nonetheless." -- Screwtape to Wormwood