Re: RFC: Expanded Apple II Information in FAQ

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article ley@discover.net (Ley Cash) writes...
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>Please... What is Summer ll Alive? Is it a zine for Apple ll folk?

    The actual name is "II-Alive", it is an Apple II magazine printed
and published by Scantron Quality Computers.  At present it is being 
sent out quarterly, so there is one issue per season (Summer, Fall,
Winter, Spring). It was bi-monthly when it originally began.

    From what I gather, SQC is just printing a few more issues merely 
to fulfill existing subscriptions and nothing more.  They are _not_ 
accepting renewals or new subscriptions, so basically the quality 
(and quantity for that matter) of the magazine has fallen. 

>In fact, are there any zines for Apple ll folks? I"m a new teacher who
>inherited an Apple ll lab. I am also in charge of the power macs in some
>classrooms and in the school office. It is easy to find Mac info and zines
>galore, but I don't want to ignore the lls. Thanks for any help.

    In the true magazine sense, no. There are still a handful of other 
types of Apple II publications however, the majority are B&W newsletters.
Shareware Solutions II is the major one, followed by Juiced.GS and
Apple Blossom. There is also SoftDisk G-S if you don't mind an on-disk
publication (it's main focus is software, not reviews or news though).

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca