Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!2hnemarrow From: 2hnemarrow@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: The GS Axe is Not Falling Message-ID: <1991Apr5.224048.29496@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Date: 6 Apr 91 04:40:48 GMT References: <9104051641.AA23415@apple.com> <51235@apple.Apple.COM> Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services Lines: 24 Just out of curiousity, what kinds of obstacles must one overcome to find out about an Apple II computer such as the GS. Is there a picture of one hidden in the bottom drawer of a filing cabinet locked in the basement of an Apple II distribution center disguised as an auto salvage yard guarded by attack dogs somewhere out in the middle of a desert? Last week I saw a picture of two IIgses in a TOYOTA ad of all places! They looked like a couple of toys. I never would have known of the GS's existence if one single lonely soul I chanced upon once happened to own one. I was immediately impressed and eventually bought one for myself. I still like my computer better than either the Macs or (blech) MS-DOS machines, I don't care what Apple or anybody else says. I just wish somebody quit hiding it. I'm a Computer Engineering major, I've been going to school here for 4 years and three majors, and in all that time, I still have met only ONE person at school who has ever even heard of an Apple IIgs. That's once by chance my first year and not again in four years. When I'm using a Mac I feel like I'm trapped in this sluggish box of a graphic interface. With my GS I can go to a text based program and flip through screens a heck of a lot faster and more easily than on the AT's at school, and on the Macs it's a moot point since you can't flip through text screens at all. After 10 years of computing I -finally- find a computer I LOVE to use, and it's on the verge of extinction except in various Kindergartens around the country. What can I say, it's the story of my life.