Re: System 6.0.2?

["Donald C. Lee" <coach41@pacbell.net>]

Hi Sandy,

    Thanks for the response.  Actually, I make fun of ISP's because I do
support for one.  Which one?  I'll let you guys figure that out.  :)

    The truth is (at least at where I work) is that most tech's are
"programmed" like robots.  They are trained for how the ISP would prefer
customers to set things up (usually on a Win 95/98 platform).  So if
Mr/Mrs. Average calls up with a problem but it's Win NT machine, good
luck!

    It's probably worse with a Mac.  I don't know a ton about Mac's but
know enough to get customers problems fixed.  Even then it was probably
more than some people who I worked with.  

    So Sandy, if you call up and you have an Apple IIGS.....well, you know
where I am going.  You already said it....."Excuse me, is that a Mac you
have?".  

    BTW, my DSL is working just fine.  I am using it right now to get
online and send this message.  I haven't had any problems with it and it
was up and running before my due date (I did a self install through Pac
Bell).  

    The potential of getting a GS (or remotely a IIe) hooked up to DSL is
tempting prospect.  I have to say that what the II community comes up with
still amazes me.  And I'd say that would be true of other orphaned
computer systems as well.  

    Too bad no one recognizes the fact that older computers can still do a
ton of things that modern computers do.  Perhaps a little slower, maybe a
little more cumbersome. But it CAN be done!  :)

    Anyway, I know most II users are already aware of this, so no need to
'preach' to those who already know.  We'll just have to 'convert' everyone
else though.  :)

Don
    

Donald C. Lee
http://www.geocities.com/smcoach41
"The Future is So Bright, I gotta wear shades!"


On Sat, 28 Oct 2000 ladyphoenixxii@my-deja.com wrote:

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> >     Since my IIe probably will not be able to do much, I'm thinking of
> > getting a IIGS used somewhere and getting it going.  Problem is finding
> > one with ROM 3, decent memory and getting all the associated
> > hardware/software together.  I'm trying to weigh the cost with the fun of
> > trying to do it.  From what I've read, Marinetti doesn't handle
> > dynamically IP's too well.  So, right now, I am running my DSL off of a
> > router so the IIGS setup wouldn't work.  but if that problem can be fixed
> > up, it would be interesting to see a IIGS using DSL (imagine calling tech
> > support: "what OS do you use?", "a Apple IIGS!" :)
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> You aren't imagining the reality that goes with this simple response I have
> an Apple IIGS.	The response from my ISP tech people is always "Oh you have a
> Mac"  No I have and Apple IIGS.  As long as I have been doing business with
> this place the bug report sheet fails to list my machine and OS. (6.0.1).  It
> gets a little funny because I have to fill in all the blanks in order to post
> then I get a funny message saying that my message couldn't be sent. I
> recommend the beginner to get an ISP nearby.  I periodically go there and sit
> with the tech and look at his PC looking at the text I see.  The difficulty
> is that the techs don't know squat about the GS or System 6.0.1 and it
> doesn't matter anyway. Of course there is much ado with buying things like
> Hewlett Packard printers.  Get the scoop from Joe on that.  Anytime I have
> gone in to shop for an HP the sales person doesn't believe that my machine
> can use their printer.	And of course the biggest insult of all is to go to
> an Apple store and ask the dealer for serial printer cables for a IIGS and
> they will swear they don't have it. Of course I blew my two sons away because
> I was able to use the 56K modem and do a very respectable 33.8k whenever I
> connect.  My husband's pc never does better than 28.8.	I am amused by that
> because the technical advisors on the radio always say it's the telephone
> line.  We use the same telephone line...so I like to think I have one of
> those computers that doesn't have built in obsolescence. My computers are 2nd
> hand and I have bought this and that card.  Had I bought into the machine in
> it's hayday, I wouldn't had the enjoyment I get out of it now.	Get an
> accelerator and Sonic Blaster and watch Megademo (wow what a trip to watch).
> Hope the DSL works by the way.	You never know until you try. Sandy 
> www.gsaug.org
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