Re: Apple Computer, What Are You Up To?

[Mike Kent <Mkent01@galileo.cris.com>]

Adrian Q <littleQ@erols.com> wrote:

> I for one Am glad to see the forward thinking going on at apple.  I agree
> that it is a hard transition.  But like all things, there is always some
> price that must be paid in exchange for progress.

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> Seeing how all this new innovation and energy has not only revived the
> Apple, but the whole computer industry, I am well willing to go with
> current wave of change.  Especially since it leads to the future.

But why do you think this is an either/or decision?  What I think
Supertimer is trying to say -- and what I know I am -- is that maintaining
backwards compatibility allows users to upgrade at their own pace and
their own budget, not Apple's.

As I sit here typing this on my IIgs, right behind my keyboard is a 1978
vintage Disk ][ 5-1/4" drive attached to a 1978 vintage Disk ][ controller
card in slot 6.  It sits right next to my 1999 vintage Iomega Zip drive
attached to my SCSI card in slot 7.  The two are perfectly happy sharing
the desktop together, and the GS works great with both.  Why should I be
forced to make a choice between the two?

Mike