Re: Apple II Celebration (was: Re: FS: APPLE IIGS)

[guenter@student.uni-kl.de (Marvin)]

Joseph E. Walsh (ransom@connect.iconnect.net) wrote:
: Finaly BTW - Did anyone else miss out because of being ignorant of all 
: the neat options available for these computers??  I gave up on Apple ][ 
: because I thought it was incapable of the things I wanted to do (run a 
: BBS, use bitmapped fonts,etc.).  If only I'd known!  If only I'd 
: subscribed to a good Apple ][ magazine!   My local stores had stopped 
: carrying most of the Apple ][ stuff, so I erroneously assumed it was 
: dead. Little did I know there was a huge variety of hardware and software 
: available via mail order... :(

Exactly this is the point! If Apple would have advertised the IIgs, they
would not have been able to make quick'n'dirty bucks with the cheaper
and less powerful Mac architecture. So they decided to pull the plug.
You can read the whole story in my www page. Or download the AppleStorm
Hyperstudio stack from ftp.uni-kl.de

Do you know that there was a IIgs successor which was completed as a
prototype and never released?! It's similar to these cars which need
less fuel. Good products are always held back by the companies. :(
You may ask Joe Kohn joko@crl.com for a magazine or video with info
about the Rom4 gs. Some years ago, this would have been a SMASH HIT.

And what have we now? Dull Macs and ugly PC's (Yuck!)

Another fine example of a death by incapable management...

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     on display in the bottom of a locked
     filing cabinet stuck in a disused
     lavatory with a sign on the door
     saying Beware of the Leopard."

Need Apple II gs software? Visit ftp.uni-kl.de...

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