Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <55g0k0$457@milo.vcn.bc.ca>, Gareth Jones <gareth@vcn.bc.ca> wrote:

>Many people obviously agree that buying a non-Mac Apple product is not a 
>worthwhile venture. I went into a computer store yesterday and saw about 
>40 GS CPU's for $25 Canadian (reduce by 1/3 to get the American 
>equivalent) each. Each CPU was filthy, but contained a Grappler clone, an 
>Apple SCSI card, and a fan. The keyboards went for $25 each, too. Apple 
>20MB hard drives, $25 each. Strangely enough, I bought a CPU and 
>keyboard. You see, my wife needs a computer for her office in a college, 
>and the college won't supply her with one. The GS will let her run 
>AppleWorks, save to a 3.5" disk, bring the disk home, pop it into her 
>Mac, and print whatever she had typed up during the day. Yes, I could 
>have looked for a "cheap" Mac, but do you think that I would find a $50 
>(Canadian) one for her?

Naturally I wasn't talking about people who would know what an Apple II is if
they see one. I just bought one myself yesterday as a matter of fact, one I
was wanting for my collection - a signature edition IIgs with ROM 0 and the
original VGC, in terrific condition. It'd be great if every Apple II there is
had a home and someone using it.

I was reading about the new Newton based computer Apple wants to make for 
people who think they don't need a full blown Mac to do stuff. So looks like
Apple can see people buying a non Mac computer now. I gotta wonder though,
I would think that people would look at a used Mac system for the $800 or so
the Newton thing will cost. But I imagine plenty o' people aren't scavengers
like me, using secondhand stuff for everything.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
shack@frii.com