Re: Commentary: I Hate to Leave Like This

[cmcurtin@r-node.io.org (C Matthew Curtin)]

eaiu184@rigel.oac.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw) writes:

>   If my prices are too high, then shop elsewhere.  I am not
>forcing anyone to buy these games.  Face it, these games are
>luxury items, not necessities.  It's not like I am running the
>only supermarket in town and charging $100 for a dozen of eggs.

Amazing how capitalism works, isn't it? :-)

>I never imagined myself as an owner of an intel based cpu.  NEVER.  
>I also thought of myself as a die-hard Apple II user.  Started
>with my IIe back in 1983, and the GS in 1988.  I used to laugh at
>clones and clone users.  Sure, I bought into the fantasy: Apple II
>Forever!

There's no fantasy there. If you're still using your GS, then you're
just as much a GS user as anyone else. I consider myself to be an avid
GSer, yet I use more than half a dozen different platforms every day.
AT&T minis, Sun SPARCstations, Macs, PCs, IBM RS/6000... I even have a
Lisa :-) I am also getting a 486 for home... I'm going to be running 
UNIX on it. Am I a traitor, too? If so, I guess I have been for some time
since I have other machines here, and have had them for some time.
the SPARCs, RS/6000, 486s, PowerPCs all have moe processing power than
my GS. They have better graphics. They have more support. Blah, Blah, Blah.
My GS is just plain more fun than any of these, and is still my favorite.

During my years as an Apple IIer, I've come to appreciate that there is much
more behind "Apple II Forever" than just a machine. The Apple II is about
hacking, doing the impossible. It wasn't possible to sell home computers
when Woz built it. It isn't possible to run Unix on a GS today. Yet, Apple II
history shows that we, the Apple II users, have done things people said
couldn't be done. The Apple II is an attitude, a spirit that will live on
in all of us who continue to believe in the philosophy, and take that 
attitude with us to any platform we use.

[ soapbox off :-) ]

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