Re: ][

[wbaguhn@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Will Baguhn)]

In article <4tppfv$rfo@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>,
Gary Sutton <cvotter@prairienet.org> wrote:
>Dave Althoff (dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us) wrote:
>: Finally, what is the problem with using "Apple ][" to refer to our
>: beloved machines?  That's how one of my ][e's refers to itself; also,
>
>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?  :)

Aurora.  The Rom1 that used to live in this case was "Zoro", but
Aurora didn't like being called Zoro since the Rom3 motherboard
was installed.  Long story, but she's much happier now.  :)
>
>
>: "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?

Ahh... that old joy.  Try "Looks like a Mac, Quacks like a Mac, but
it's a ][.  It's not a Mac."  Then grab the big stick... 

>
>Well, that's my ][ cents worth.  O:3
>
>Yerf!
>
>Otter
>


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