Re: Former AppleII user...

[fmlin@netcom.com (Frank M. Lin)]

>> Why do you people confuse computers with religion?
>
>Since my recent post describing my general feelings for the AppleII, I
>have been accused of all sorts of things, and have been called a
>plethora of names. Perhaps the most prevelant was the Beevis and
>Butthead theme. Nevertheless, I am not one to watch MTV let alone Beevis
>and Butthead.

Great, if you've move on, don't look back.  We don't need your useless
comments.

>That aside, however, some have said that I have never even seen a good
>AppleIIgs configuration. On the contrary, I once had a great
>configuration.  It was capable of a multitude of things.  As a
>professional, I used my AppleIIgs for desktop publishing, word
>processing, games, and even programming.

Uh huh.

>However, as my duties expanded, I found that I spent more time waiting
>for my AppleIIgs to reformat a page or even print.  As a result, I
>invested in an accelerator card and additional memory. Unfortunately,
>this did no improve my situation much.

If it doesn't do what you want, use a better tool.

>Then one day, I visited a friends' house. This friend had a 80486
>running at 50 Mhz. He was using PageMaker and was able to reformat a
>page or print almost instantaneously. Naturally, I investigated and
>found that hard drives, memory, etc. were dirt cheap. For example, I
>purchased a 340MB hard drive for $385. I just peeked in an old InciderA+
>and found a 200MB hard drive for $749.95. I could purchase 680MB worth
>of disk space for that price!

PageMaker, obviously, you want something more professional than what
the GS can offer, so go ahead...

As for HD prices, you're way off on that.  You're talking about an old
inCider/A+ issue.  // users with SCSI card can pick up almost all the
SCSI HDs outthere at the same price.

>I then concluded that the AppleIIgs was truly dead. I sold it, for a
>huge loss I might add, and purchased a 80486 66Mhz computer. Since then,
>I have increased my work load and my productivity. There are those that
>claim that the AppleIIgs runs just as fast as any 80486 computer. That
>is absoluetly ludicrous and false. There is no comparision. Even
>Micrsoft Windows runs faster on my 80486 machine than my accelerated
>AppleIIgs!

Good for you...  But our //'s does everything we need it to do right now,
and we'll move on when it's necessary.

>I'm sure there will be replies calling me even more names, saying that I
>"jumped on the bandwagon", that I'm a "traitor", etc. The bottom line
>here is that I could no longer justify spending a pile of money on
>something that I could get elsewhere for less. And the less expensive
>hardware outperforms the more expensive!!!

If you didn't talk crap in the first place, we would not have all this.

>Unfortunately, I am still very close to the AppleII community and would
>damage some by identifying myself here. Therefore, I shall remain
>anonymous.

Ha...

-- 
frank m. lin
fmlin@netcom.com