Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!hubcap!gatech!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!UIAMVS.BITNET!AWCTTYPA From: AWCTTYPA@UIAMVS.BITNET ("David A. Lyons") Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: inCider buyout of A+: so what? Message-ID: <8903131105.aa22503@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Date: 13 Mar 89 16:01:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 39 >Date: Mon, 13 Mar 89 08:05:47 GMT >From: The Unknown User > >Subject: InCider buyout of A+/Death of Apple II >This is from Denise Caruso's weekly column INSIDE SILICON VALLEY on >the TECHNOLOGY page of the business section of today's (Sunday March >12) San Francisco Examiner/Chronicle > >PLUS NO MORE: In case anyone needed proof that the Apple II's days >are numbered, A-Plus, the award-winning ZIFF-DAVIS publication that >covered the Apple II market for the last six years, has been sold to >IDG in Peterborough, N.H. [...] END OF QUOTATION Gee, does anybody need _more_ proof than that? :-) (I do.) Actually, if you take the statement literally, I agree with it: the Apple II's days can indeed be numbered. We can start with "1" way back when it came out. Based on the "copyright 1977" on the old Apple II ROM, I guess were currently on about 4300, and counting.... >Also I don't understand the logic of Apple taking out FULL PAGE >ads in many newspapers last year looking for engineers to work on the >NEXT GENERATION of Apple //s if they are really going to dump it. Pretty >dumb, I say. Conclusion: They are _not_ going to dump it. Brilliant, eh? I would be extremely surprised to see the Apple IIgs or Apple IIc+ go away. Maybe the IIe will--I really have no idea. It wouldn't be a problem if it did, in my opinion, since you could just get a IIc+ if you don't want slots and a IIgs if you do. >The Unknown User >unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu --David A. Lyons bitnet: awcttypa@uiamvs DAL Systems CompuServe: 72177,3233 P.O. Box 287 GEnie mail: D.LYONS2 North Liberty, IA 52317 AppleLinkPE: Dave Lyons