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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Apple's II plans...
Message-ID: <16362@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 8 Jun 91 03:59:19 GMT
References: <1991Jun6.111608.436@crash.cts.com>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1991Jun6.111608.436@crash.cts.com> edwatkeys@pro-sol.cts.com (Ed Watkeys) writes:
>Anyway, I work at an Apple dealer, and we got something we haven't recieved
>in a LONG TIME: promotional material for the II.  It was talking about
>software, and multimedia and other stuff of interest to schools.  It *did*,
>however talk about individual consumers, which is something that blew me
>away.

That is the most encouraging thing to come out of Apple regarding the II
family in a long time!  I always thought that one of the major causes of
the unjust neglect by Apple of the II as a personal computer was that
they had assigned Apple II marketing to their educational division, who
naturally paid no attention to markets other than the educational market.