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From: lazer@lablues.UUCP (Patrick Delahanty)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: SUPPORT APPLE...even when you're not.
Message-ID: <m8J642w164w@lablues.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jun 91 14:17:21 GMT
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Organization: L/A Blues BBS - Auburn, Maine (207) 777-3465
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PLEASE READ THIS!!!  READ THIS!!! 
 
I know a lot of people have an Apple and something else...be it IBuM, Mac, 
or Commodore (snicker).  Still want to help support Apple ][ when you get 
stuff for that OTHER computer?  I sure as hell do!
 
I'm going off to college at WPI next year and will have an IBuM.  :(  When I 
buy games...er...programming utilities...I will only order from mail order 
houses that support Apple ][.  And I will TELL the mail order house that 
that's why I'm ordering from them and not from their competitor.  So even 
when I'm getting stuff for another computer, I'll let them know I'm an Apple 
][ user.  
 
One of my other neat tricks is to phone a place like Egghead and say 
something like, "Hello.  I was wondering if you carried SimCity for IBM."  
"...You do...great!  And do you have Publish It! 4 for Apple ][?"  "...no?!  
Then forget it...I'll shop someplace where I can get both."  I know it's 
kinda mean and nasty...but so were they for dropping Apple ][ right!?  :)
 
-Lazer