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From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall)
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Subject: re: GS+ not announced
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Date: 12 May 89 15:14:20 GMT
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>Since Apple has NEVER said there was a GS+, why should they have to say there

John Sculley was quoted more than a year ago as saying there WOULD be
an upgrade to the IIgs (but NOT in 1988.. hint, hint).  The IIgs+ is as
good a 'name' as any for the product referred to.

>The so called GS+ began as a figment of someone's mind and went from there,
>Never once did Apple encourage that rumor.

At least some Apple developers HAVE had prototypes of Apple 2 type machines
not on the market (and not necessarily ever intended to be marketed).
There's better than minimal evidence (including a private note from an
Apple engineer <protected source>) that the gs+ isn't entirely a figment
(although many, if not most, of the details distributed by bbs's last year
were "pie-in-the-sky")

>The only thing Apple did say was when John Sculley said there would be
>an addition to the Apple II line in 12 to 18 months from the time he made
>the announcement (and that was last September), which by my book was much
>less than 12 months ago. What else do they really need to say. It was

Last September was a rehash of statements made much earlier (before the
May '88 Applefest to squash rumors that a new IIgs might be introduced
in the Spring of '88).

>said plain and clear what and when to expect something, so let's give
>him the benifit of the doubt. When 18 months has come and gone, then and
>only then do they owe us some public word on why their CEO lied to
>the public, if in fact they do not live upto his word, and no-where in
>his statement did he ever say what was going to be would be named
>the GS+.

The name's beside the point.  You ARE correct that there never was a basis
for believing an upgraded IIgs would be announced at the Boston AppleFest.
The expectation created by Sculley's comments, almost from the earliest of
them, has been Sep '89 (reported in the Vaporware column so long ago I don't
even want to bother digging into back issues for it).

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