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From: REWING@TRINCC.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Death of the Apple II: GREATLY EXAGGERATED
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Date: 20 Mar 89 21:00:00 GMT
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Look folks, I don't know where some of this BS is coming from regarding
the fictional death of the Apple II family, but its obvious to me that
many people in this industry, usually writing for trade rags just don't
know what the hell they are talking about.  Either that, or they would
like to see the Apple II killed for some other diabolical reason.
Regardless of where the media tripe comes from, DON'T BELIEVE IT FOR
AN INSTANT!!!!!  We aren't supposed to talk about future products,
but if you guys knew what was coming down the pike for the Apple II world,
all this conversation would quickly end.  I wish that it would end
and people would go back to talking about productive rather than destructive
things, bu, but it looks like this may not be the case.  *Sigh*.
The sad thing is that all this chatter about the death of the machine
is probably affecting many of those of you who read this bboard, but are
less vocal and are having questions about whether to stay with their Apple
IIs.  If the Apple II stops selling just because many people think that
its going bye bye on idle rumor, then that will be one of the biggest
disgraces in modern computer times.

--Rick Ewing
  Apple Atlanta tech Support
  ...and generally pissed off by all of this...