Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!m.cs.uiuc.edu!knauer From: knauer@cs.uiuc.edu (Rob Knauerhase) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: So? Did the announcement happen? Message-ID: <1991Apr16.210501.8227@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 16 Apr 91 21:05:01 GMT References: <51564@apple.Apple.COM> Sender: news@m.cs.uiuc.edu (News Database (admin-Mike Schwager)) Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL Lines: 34 Nntp-Posting-Host: cassius.cs.uiuc.edu In <51564@apple.Apple.COM> shrinkit@Apple.COM (Andrew Nicholas) writes: >In article ersys!tony@nro.cs.athabascau.ca (Tony Turner) writes: >>--> It's the 15th - and as the various rumours have said: this is when >>Apple is supposedly going to announce the End Of The Apple II Line... >>Along with the release of the Apple IIe card for the Mac LC. Along with >>the (dream on) rumour of the Apple II being flogged through SEARS. No >What is even more boring is watching people on the network speculate about >the Apple II and BE ABSOLUTELY WRONG TIME AFTER TIME. >Well folks, its now April 16th,and we (Apple) aren't selling the Apple II line >through Sears, and we haven't (and aren't going to) discontinued it. >See how much listening to rumors like that gets you? Absolutely nothing. Well, I was in Sears just yesterday afternoon, and they said... :-) Seriously, though, perhaps it's time for a repeat of one of my favorite quotes (formerly in my .signature): "Since the day the Apple III (RIP) was introduced in 1980, the 'experts' have been saying the Apple II is a dead machine. If the Apple III couldn't kill it, the Lisa (RIP) or the PC Jr. (RIP) or the 128K Mac (RIP) would. Some people never learn." -- Tom Weishaar Is anyone in favor of making an official comp.sys.apple2 bumper sticker with that quote on it and selling them mail-order? :) Rob -- Robert C. Knauerhase University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "I get my exercise acting as Dept. of Computer Science, Gigabit Study Group pallbearer for my friends knauer@cs.uiuc.edu, rck@ces.cwru.edu who exercise..." knauer@scivax.lerc.nasa.gov