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From: keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: What's up, II?
Keywords: Apple II and the neat things it's for
Message-ID: <27977@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 28 Mar 89 17:26:07 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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Alright, here's a question for you all:

The success of Apple was based on the genius and creativeness of the people
who bought and used the computers. There was Bob Bishop (and his evil twin
brother, Bish Bobhop). There was Bill Budge. There was Paul Lutus. There were
the Beagle Brothers and all the young authors they sponsored. There was Roger
Wagner (who's still hanging in there!). There were the authors of VisiCalc.
Even Mike Westerfield was there in 1980 with the first version of ORCA/M.

Of course, there are thousands of others that I can't even begin to mention.
But the point is, we all know the names of these people for what they did for
the Apple II.

Which makes me wonder: what is happening out there right now? I am intensely
interested in hearing what wonderful things people are working on in their
spare time. 

	- Andy Nicolas has just recently made big splash with ShrinkIt.

	- Dave Lyons has put out a number of wonderful programs, topped off 
	  with that most wonderful of all utilities, Nifty List.

	- Scott Lindsey tossed of a little integrated package now being
	  published by Claris.

	- I myself have written a memory resident disk editor in the spirit
	  of Watson and The Inspector, and have also written an online help
	  system for BASIC.SYSTEM (it would describe commands, explain why the
	  error that just occured did so, had a built-in calculator, number
	  base converter, notepad, and calender...all available in their own
	  little text windows by holding down Open-Apple and another key).

What else are people working on? What other gems can we find in the dark
corners of people's hard disks and floppies? I think that if we get some ideas
flowing, we could start a new generation of "neat hacks" that made the Apple II
the coolest computer a person could possibly have!

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