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[KILPATRICK@Tank.CYBERphile.co.uk (Richard)]

In article <4tppfv$rfo@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, cvotter@prairienet.org (Gary Sutton) says:

>Actually, I refer to my IIGS by her name, Karma.  I thought that would 
>make her sound a bit more personalized than just 'The IIGS'.  Anyone else 
>name their systems?  :)

Yeah, my Mac Performa is called Perry, my //e enhanced is (original, huh)
Tuie, the IIgs Sophie and my PC $%�%&^"@*** (most of the time!).

>: "Apple ][" will never be mistaken for anything Macintosh...remember that
>: the Macintosh II does exist and it does cause confusion.  And
>
>Karma just recently got mistaken for a Mac.  A few weeks ago, we were 
>scouting out local ISPs, trying to get a nice shell account.  One of the 
>places we checked out declared that they were discontinuing shell 
>accounts because no one uses them anymore (Guess us II users are 
>considered no one, eh?)  Anyway, when we told them that we were using a 
>IIGS, they said, 'Oh.  You have a Mac?'  We then went into a long 
>dissertation about what a GS was and was not.  Finally, after we thought 
>they got it into their 300bps brains that there is such a thing as Apple 
>II, some other employee came in and he was promptly told that we have a 
>Mac.  All we could do then was leave in disgust.  What happened to the 
>days when people in the computer industry were required to have some 
>degree of intelligence?

I had some people at an AppleCenter tried to sell me a set of overpriced
IIcx SIMMS when I wanted a ROM 01 upgrade... Then they got some
LaserWriter IIg ROMS (version 3.0) when I asked for a ROM 03 main board!

In some people's minds, there are a lot of Macintosh IIgs' out there!

>O:3
>
>Yerf!
>
>Otter

Nice name! What does the smiley variation mean?

Regards,
Richard