Re: Help! New to Apple ][

[seanlynch <seanlynch@delphi.com>]

This is kind of silly...
 
Like complaining that Ford doesn't make model t's any more. (Even though my
Apple II can beat the shorts off a tin lizzy in the quarter mile.)
 
What I get mad at apple for is the time they take to release things over to the
public. fer instance : Apple inc no longer thinks Apple II's are viable, so
they drop'em, but they take a while to release the tech notes and software to
public accesibility.
 
Why do they sell the rights to appleworks an apwks GS? It worked out for
apwks classick, but now we'll never have a chance at even fixing the bugs in
GS!
 
It would have been better to make it freeware, but I guess some things are
still alittle viable after all?
 
The other thing that gets me is that the Apple II didn't really die! Oh I don't
mean the millions that are still used around the globe, I mean the Mac II.
 
huh?
 
When the mac was created, the mac philosophy had several main points:
 
- This is a serious business machine
- this machine has a time saving human interface
- Everything you'll ever need is in there, so don't even think of opening
  this box up!
 
they sold alot right away, but in the late 80's people stopped buying them(
or slowed way down anyway).
 
ne of the great things about apple II' was user definability. We could open
our computers and put lotsa cards in'em!!!!
 
If Apple inc. had any marketing ability they would have put on a blitz telling
us how they were merging the two apple computers the MAC and the II into the
ta da : MAC II !!!
and then hadve claris back up the fanfare with a really good IIe and IIgs
e much happier
with Apple inc. .
 
The Idea of user definability was central to the apple II from the first days
with the T.V. interface cards. Only when the Mac fully embraced this idea
could it survive and compete.
 
Apple's antagonism torwards the II always amazes me.
 
I can't blame any company for moving on to new things...
but I can blame them for stepping on us as they go
 
-sean
 
I guess this means that i'm just as silly as the other tin lizzy owners, huh?