Re: low level format on a lisa?

["Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@attglobal.net>]

For my part, I think that Lisa and Apple /// questions are not entirely
inappropriate here, if for no other reason than that these computers, like
the Apple II, were abandoned by Apple in the face of the Mac juggernaut.
"We're all in this together," so to speak.

But Mac questions should be politely referred to an appropriate forum and
the answer posted there..

Tom Z


"Mike Pfaiffer" <pfaiffer@mts.net> wrote in message
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> Paul Grammens wrote:
>
> > Mike Pfaiffer <pfaiffer@mts.net> wrote
> >
> >>The point I was trying to make (no personal criticism intended with any
> >>of this), was there is a a good deal more difference between the Apple//
> >>series and Lisa than there is between the Apple// and Apple///.
> >>
> >
> > That's a valid point, but who cares (besides you)?  If someone posts a
Lisa
> > question here, and I can help, I'm going to answer.  Feel free to
complain.
> > I'm going to do it anyway.
> > For that matter, if someone asks a Mac question, and I know the answer,
I'm
> > going to help them and THEN mention that they might check with a Mac
> > newsgroup next time.  We're here to help. That takes precedence over
rules.
> > -Paul
>
>
> Well, obviously a lot of people do care. This is why the group was called
> comp.sys.apple2 not comp.sys.apple.legacy. If the people in this group
> want to change the name and charter then I'm all for it. Until then the
> agreement is to stick with the topic of the group. Let's take a straw
> poll to see if talking about machines other than the Apple// or /// are
> within agreed conversation. If so then the FAQs can also be adjusted to
> take all this into account. Either way it will benefit the group as a
> whole to have this debate. As I suggested earlier, it's not a matter of
> helping these "lost souls". Rather it is a matter of *where* the help
> should take place.