Re: Ian vs. The GS Community

[irsman@drift.winternet.com (Ian Schmidt)]

[note to everyone: as long as baz keeps it civil, this is my last word on 
the subject]

In article <bazyarCx5L7A.3H4@netcom.com>,
Jawaid Bazyar <bazyar@netcom.com> wrote:
>mquattro@chat.carleton.ca (Michael Quattrocchi) writes:

>  I own a PC, so I _know_ it's not "us against the PC world". In fact,
>I wrote discQuest, so I'm one of the people who realizes just how useful
>the PC world can be to us. Same goes for products like the Blue Disk,
>PCTransporter (for all its flaws), Pointless, etc etc.

Agreed.  The PC is an impressive source of new ideas for computing uses,
many if not most of which can be done on the GS to make our lives more
fun too.  discQuest in particular is a pretty amazing thing considering 
what it does and what it has to work with.

>>produce slow, human-interface compliant crap, which preferred to use
>>an 800k disk drive as it's master.

There's nothing at all wrong with the human interface.  It doesn't have to
be slow; switchIt! certainly is compliant (I find it rather easier to use
than certain competing products, to be sure).

>  Let's drop this talk of "doing the community a service". I do as
>much Apple II stuff as I do because it makes money! :-)  I like the II
>world because it's fun, but if I couldn't make a living at it I'd sure
>spend a lot less time at it. 

Money is a good thing.  Fun is a good thing.  Put 'em together, and you can
only have the GS :)

>>Am i to be flamed for only stating the obvious? I'm embarrassed enough
>>that I had to waste bandwidth telling two of the IIgs' remaining
>>pillars of strength to give it up on comp.sys.apple2.      

No flames here.  This whole thing is utterly dumb.

> Jawaid Bazyar              |   Like UNIX? Like your Apple IIGS? Then ask

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