Re: The Apple II Now and Forever

[gdesroch@slate.mines.colorado.edu (DESROCHERS GARY FREDERIC)]

philip@labtam.labtam.oz.au (Philip Stephens) writes:
: Harold Byron Bouma writes:
: 
: >People now take their GS's in to their dealer for repairs and the technician
: >ask them how to open the GS. Is this quality service one should expect from
: >Apple after buying $3000 worth of equipment from them?
: 
:   Certainly not.  But considering that Apple is planning to drop the GS from
: their product list in the near future, it's no surprise that they are
: disinclined to put the money and resources into maintaining trained
: technicians that can repair GS's.  No computer company can be expected to
: support superceded models forever, even though Apple has been quicker than
: most to drop their support.

     What's this?!?  Any technician that is worth his salt in anything
anything should be able to fix either of them.  This is not because Apple
may or not be dropping the IIgs or any II for that matter.  Sounds like
they just got bad techs.


-- 
Gary F. Desrochers
gdesroch@slate.mines.colorado.edu