Re: new Apple announcement: Apple IIgs is obsolete (again)

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"Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@es.co.nz> wrote:

>I came across an interesting press release today. It's from a company which
>sells used computers and parts. The release includes a list from Apple of
>computers which are now classed by them as vintage or obsolete. The Apple
>IIgs was declared obsolete by Apple on 10 January 2000. I expect everyone
>here will immediately stop using their GS's ;-)
>
>http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000114/ma_pre_own_1.html

Apple Computers, please give me a break!  What is the logic
of January 10, 2000?  If being obsolete is how they treat a
computer, they "obsoleted" the IIGS a long time ago.  If one
is to have a logical date based on something that's not
arbitrary, it should be January 1, 2040.  That's the date the
IIGS will suffer the equivalent of the Y2K bug and think it is
1940 (try setting the IIGS clock forward to verify this).