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Subject: Re: So? Did the announcement happen?
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Date: 21 Apr 91 00:07:00 GMT
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In <51564@apple.Apple.COM> shrinkit@Apple.COM (Andrew Nicholas) 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 the only reason why these rumors are running about is because
Apple continues to make its position on the future of the II very indecisive.
On the one hand we have all the great guys working down at Apple II DTS doing
great advances in our OS, while Apple turns around and publishes a 40 page
advertisement in Incider that is completly pro-mac and puts down the II line as
an inferior computer. While we have heard that Apple plans to continue to
develop the II line, we don't see any sign of any major hardware development.
Meanwhile, everything upper management does has the word Macintosh in its
plans. As soon as Apple sends out a strong signal about the future of the II,
then people will stop speculating "the death of the Apple II"

                                                - Hal

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