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Date: 20 Apr 91 23:56:00 GMT
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In an earlier article, Kenneth Fair writes:

>>In article <22324@yunexus.YorkU.CA> philip@yunexus.yorku.ca (Phil McDunnough)
 writes:
>>I can't tell you the number of people who have walked into my room and said,
>>"A Mac IIGS, is that one of the new ones?  Wow."
 
> As for myself, I've taking to punching them out.  It seems that NO
> ONE, especially Mac owners, have even HEARD of the Apple II line.  I
> get the last laugh, though, when I show them what my modestly upgraded
> GS can do.  Especially demos by FTA and the new 3200 color routines.
> The more 3200 becomes a standard, the better.

	This fact has always been a disapointing fact of how good of a job
Apple has done in hiding up its original computer. Even 3 years ago, when our
high school purchased a GS for our music department and we had it in the lab
for a bit, we had to place a sign on it saying "THIS IS NOT A MACINTOSH"
because so many people would put their disks into it thinking it was
a mac. And here at college {I am again the ONLY IIGS owner} and again
lots of people come in while hearing Modulae's music come pouring out and say
"Cool! What is that? IIGS?? When did that come out?" Its so sad that no one
knows what it is, but there's hope because people still think that its cool...
Now if we can get Apple to think this too...

							- Hal

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